Roles enable teams involved in model development and specification to collaborate effectively. The ‘Designer’ role grants users access to the specification platform, allowing them to coordinate model information and specifications, but not the ability to make edits. The ‘Writer’ role is for developing projects and masters, and managing your organization. Both roles can view the specification 'Guidance' and add 'Spec notes'. This article explains the role and permission levels in more detail.
Designer – the Designer role is for users who mainly coordinate and synchronize model information with the specification, but don’t require permission to edit or write specification content. This allows organizations with users who tend to focus on model development, and who only need to read and understand the context of the specification without editing its content, to grant permission to annotate references in drawing sheets and outputs with specification 'Associations'.
Writer – the Writer role is for users who need to author specification content, and/ or users who manage their 'Organization settings' and 'Org notes'.
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Designer and writer frequently asked questions
Please note: Designer roles are available for 'Pro' (and above) subscriptions. All existing customers automatically get the Writer role as part of their subscription (at no extra cost).
Designer is a cost-effective offering for organizations that want to coordinate the design model with the specification but don’t need all users to edit or write specification content. It is perfect for design teams to view and annotate NBS specifications within their modelling environment. Request information
Permissions overview
The main difference between the Writer and Designer permissions is the ability to edit specification content. The table below gives a high-level view of what you can do with the Designer and Writer roles.
For a deep dive into all of the permissions, please see Collaboration roles and permissions - Projects & master folders and Roles and permissions - for the specification platform.
| Activities in a project or master* | Writer | Designer |
|---|---|---|
| View the specification in Lattira Spec and NBS Chorus and read the contents | Yes | Yes |
| Publish and export the specification content | Yes | Yes |
| View and export Summary Schedule | Yes | Yes |
| View manufacturer content from Source, NBS Guidance and organization notes | Yes | Yes |
| Associate articles, clauses and sections via the NBS plug-ins; annotate and manage associations to model objects | Yes | Yes |
| Edit the Article or clause 'Prefix', 'Title' and 'Suffix' fields | Yes | Yes |
| Add specification notes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit the specification | Yes | No |
| Add new content to the specification or Summary Schedule | Yes | No |
| Mark the specification articles and clauses as complete | Yes | No |
| View and apply Updates to the specification | Yes | No |
| Copy and paste contents from the specification | Yes | No |
| Activities outside of projects and masters** | Writer | Designer |
| Add organization notes | Yes | No |
| Add and manage organization users | Yes | No |
| Add variables | Yes | No |
| Upload stylesheets | Yes | No |
Table showing the activities possible when you are signed in as a Designer or Writer.
*You still require permission to access a project or master.
**You must be an Organization administrator.
For a deep dive into all of the permissions, please see Collaboration roles and permissions - Projects & master folders and Roles and permissions - for the specification platform.