Roles & Permissions

Kani uses a permission-based access model. What you see in the sidebar and what actions you can take (view, create, edit, delete) on each page depend on the permissions attached to your account.

Roles

An administrator can create Roles (for example, Admin, Manager, Dispatcher, Accountant) and attach a set of permissions to each one. Assigning a role to a user grants them that role's permissions, and stay in sync automatically — if an administrator updates a role's permissions, everyone with that role is updated immediately.

Kani ships with three default roles:

• Admin — full access
• Manager — broad operational access, typically including approvals
• User — standard day-to-day access

Individual permissions

Instead of a role, a user can be given an individual, custom set of permissions. This is useful for one-off cases where someone needs access that doesn't fit an existing role.

What permissions control

Permissions are granted per page and per action, for example imports.view, imports.create, imports.edit, imports.delete. Some areas (imports, exports, transport requests, trips, freight forwarding) also have finer-grained permissions for sub-actions like attachments and expense review/approval.

If a menu item, button, or page you expect to see is missing, it's most likely a permission that hasn't been granted to your account — ask your administrator.

Managing roles and users

Administrators manage roles and user access under Administration → Users and Administration → Roles. See Users and Roles & Permissions under Administration.