All permissions
Every permission in Root, organized by category.
Permissions marked Administrative (✓) are powerful: they let members change community settings, manage other members, delete others' content, or control voice channels. Grant them only to people you trust.
Be careful when granting administrative permissions. Members with these permissions can significantly impact your community.
Community
These permissions control community-wide administrative actions.
| Permission | Description | Administrative |
|---|---|---|
| Community Full Control | Grants every permission. Overrules channel and channel group permission settings. | ✓ |
| Manage Community | Update the community's name, description, color, image, and system messages channel. | ✓ |
| View Action Log | View a record of logged member actions. | ✓ |
| Manage Apps | Create, update, and delete apps. | ✓ |
| Manage Emojis | Add, edit, and remove the community's custom emojis. | ✓ |
Members
These permissions control member management and invitations.
| Permission | Description | Administrative |
|---|---|---|
| Invite Users | Allows members to invite new users to the community. | |
| Manage Roles | Create, update, delete, and assign roles. | ✓ |
| Kick Member | Remove members from the community. | ✓ |
| Create Bans | Ban members from the community for a set or infinite amount of time. | ✓ |
| Manage Bans | Ban and unban community members. View and edit current bans. | ✓ |
| Manage Invites | View, create, and revoke community invitations. | ✓ |
Manage Roles only works within the permissions you already hold. When you create or edit a role, any permission you don't have yourself is grayed out, and you can only assign a role if you already have every permission it grants. So a member with Manage Roles but not Community Full Control can't grant the Admin role, or hand out any permission they don't have, to anyone (including themselves).
Becoming the community owner is separate: it isn't a role, and it only moves through Transfer ownership.
Channels
These permissions control channel creation and management.
| Permission | Description | Administrative |
|---|---|---|
| Channel Full Control | Grants all channel permissions. Allows editing or deleting channels. | ✓ |
| Create Channel Groups | Create channel groups. | ✓ |
Messages
These permissions control what members can do with messages in text channels.
| Permission | Description | Administrative |
|---|---|---|
| Send Messages | Create, edit, and delete your own messages. | |
| Attach Files | Include files in your messages. | |
| Use Global Mentions | Use global mentions such as @all and @here in your messages. | |
| View History | View messages in a channel that were sent before the date you joined the community. | |
| Add Reactions | Add reactions to messages. Remove reactions that you added. | |
| Use External Emojis | Use custom emojis from other communities. | |
| Delete Messages | Delete messages by other members. | ✓ |
| Manage Pinned Messages | Pin or unpin messages. | ✓ |
Files
These permissions control file and directory access in channels.
| Permission | Description | Administrative |
|---|---|---|
| View Files | View files and directories. | |
| Upload Files | Upload, view, and delete your files and directories. View others' files and directories. | |
| Manage Files | View, create, and delete files and directories. Update file and directory names. | ✓ |
Voice and Video
These permissions control voice and video chat capabilities.
| Permission | Description | Administrative |
|---|---|---|
| Stream Audio | Use voice chat. | |
| Stream Video | Use video chat and screen sharing. | |
| Mute Microphones | Prevent a member from talking in voice channels. | ✓ |
| Mute Speakers | Prevent a member from hearing audio in voice channels. | ✓ |
| Kick Voice Member | Remove a member from a voice channel. | ✓ |