As explained in our article on Group Member Types, each Clinked group has 3 member types to use depending on our planned use of Clinked:
- Group Administrator (“Group Admin”)
- Group Content Contributor (“Can Contribute”)
- Group Member (“Read Only”)
To better explain what each Group Member has the capabilities to do, we will outline each of their capabilities. This article will explain the capabilities of a Group Administrator.
At a summary level, a Group Administrator has the capability in the following areas:
- Group Members - Create, Invite, Assign Capabilities, View & Remove Group Members
- Group Trash - View & Manage Deleted Content
- Group Settings - Setup, Manage and Change
- Group Home - Setup View for all Group Members
- Group Content - Creation, Permissions, Tags across Tools

The following outlines the above capabilities of these areas and tools within a Group:
Group Members Capabilities:
- Group Members Area: Access to see Group Members area
- Manage Members: Update member capabilities in Member Profile
- Create Members: Ability to invite or Assign new members
- Remove Members: Can remove a member from the Group
- Export Member List: Ability to get CSV export of members

Group Trash Capabilities:
- Can view content in trash
- Can restore delete items
- Can permanently delete items

Group Settings Capabilities:
- View all settings from Group creation
- Can edit branding & visual appearance
- Can restrict group
- Can edit Group Tools to enable or disable their access on Group's left-hand navigation
- Can edit Notification Settings
- Can edit Advanced Settings

Group Home Capabilities:
- Edit Widgets - Can clink of Edit Widgets to access mode to change the layout of the Group's Home by adding, moving, editing & removing widgets
- Edit - Once note or widgets are added to the home, can make edits to that content directly
- Create announcements

Group Content Capabilities by Tool Type:
Files Capabilities:
- Can add a new folder with permissions
- Upload files
- Download/delete/cut & copy files
- Can update folder permissions
- Can download documents
- Upload a new version of the document
- Edit existing folders (delete, cut, copy, follow, sign, lock, guest share)
- Can add annotations/print
- Post comments, guest share, see previous activity, tag people, see older versions, create tasks linked to the doc, request approval and add signatures
- Can delete comments
- Can organise folder previews, e.g last modified, size
- Can set file permissions




Notes Capabilities:
- Can add new notes
- Edit existing notes
- Access note settings
- Guest Share, See previous activity, tag others, add attachments, see older versions & set permissions
- Post comments on notes

Discussions Capabilities:
- Can create a new discussion
- Reply to existing discussions unless the discussion has been made private and the group administrator has not been assigned to it.
- Tag people
- See previous activity
- Add attachments
- Can set permissions
- Guest Share


Events Capabilities:
- Can add a new entry
- Edit existing event details, e.g time and date
- Can force attendee’s to confirm or decline
- Sent reminders for the event
- Make the event recurring
- Can invite and remove assignee’s
- Guest Share, See previous activity, tag others, add attachments, see older versions & set permissions


Task Capabilities:
- Can add new categories
- Filter date/time & assignee for categories
- Can filter to show all completed tasks
- Download tasks
- Can update progress of task
- Ability to add tasks to existing categories
- Edit existing tasks inc time, date, assignees, reminders, recurrences and status
- Delete/unfollow existing tasks
- Post comments, guest share, see activity, tag people, add attachments & set permissions
- Can select a task, multiple tasks or task category to copy & then paste into another group where they are a Group Administrator or a Content Contributor


Now you've learnt about our Group Administrator capabilities, why not learn more about our Content Contributor user.