Teams vary in size and responsibility, and Digs is making changes to user permissions to better reflect those responsibilities. What does this mean for you?

• Effective immediately, Project Owner is being renamed Manager. This provides clarity, as many projects currently have multiple Project 'Owners'.
  
  You do not need to make any changes, the tags on screen will just update when released.

Starting in late August 2024:

• Using your existing project invite tools, new user roles will be available to differentiate Admins, Builders, and other project participants.

  • Guest Collaborators will be updated to remove potentially negative user rights, like deleting other people’s comments or files. We trust people, but accidents happen.
    

  • A new Editor role is being added beneath Manager. Editors will not have full project control but will have more permissions than a Collaborator, such as deletion rights and file management.
    Adding an Editor to your account will require an additional user seat (if the user has not already been upgraded previously)
    

• Next up, a new centralized user management console will allow Admins to see all users in one location, easily update a user across several projects, and keep your projects secure.
  

• Finally, a new Homeowner designation will be added. This will be an identifier at first, but will lead to enhancing the homeowner experience around project viewing and private files/conversations. Homeowners play various roles in the project process, and the Homeowner attribute will be applicable to any Manager, Editor, or Contributor role.
  

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As we prepare for the upcoming user role changes:

• Starting Thursday, August 15th, free projects will be adjusted so that projects with multiple Managers will have additional users reassigned to Collaborator roles. This update aligns with our original design for free projects to include one 'Project Owner/Manager', and recent improvements now allow us to consistently apply this guideline.