Introduction

On the "Together" portal, different users will be able to perform different activities according to their user rights.

There are three types of user roles: 

1. Standard Users - most of the employees

2. Contributors - few people who will own some page content

3. SIte owners - One or two people (maybe in IT or in the HR/Marketing department)

*Who can contribute, aka add content, news, events, and photos?

By default, Together keeps the same way rights as managed in native SharePoint so that all the owners and members of the portal will be able to add and edit the content on intranet pages.

Learn more:

• Share a site (microsoft.com)
• Customize SharePoint site permissions - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Docs

1. Standard Users

Standard users on the "Together portal" have limited rights. They mostly have a read-access, meaning that they will not have additional rights to contribute to creating content. However, standard users will benefit from notification capabilities; they will be able to create specific types of content such as company Ads and additionally will be able to submit articles and links for social engagement pages. 

If you are a standard owner, you must read: 

• 📢 What is Together?
• 🔍 Navigation - what you will find in your "Together" Portal
• 📄 Pages - Department
• 📄 Pages - Home
• 📄 Pages - Onboarding
• 📄 Pages - Search center
• 📄 Pages - Share on Social Media
• 📄 Pages - News
• 📄 Pages - Company directory
• 📄 Pages - Employee lifecycle
• 📄 Pages - Events Hub
• 📄 Pages - Flexdesk
• 📄 Pages - Job offers
• 📄 Pages - Company Ads
• 📄 Pages - FAQ
• 📄 Pages - Waterfountain
• 🤝 Teams & Together Portal

2. Contributors

"Together" contributor is a portal user who has additional rights on the portal compared to a standard user. A "Together" contributor will be able to contribute to creating, adding, and modifying content on the Intranet.  

However, the contributor rights will be limited compared to a Site Owner's rights who have additional rights on the portal.

Contributors will be able to:

• Add and manage content on the pages
• Add additional Sharepoint web parts to the page

If you are a contributor, you must additionally read: 

• 📢 Together FAQ
• ❓How to: create a "welcoming text"?
• ❓ How to: create "Contacts"?
• ❓How to: create events?
• ❓ How to: create "Quick access"?
• ❓How to: create news?
• ❓How to: create new documents?
• ❓How to add a Department Page?
• ❓How to: Enable audience targeting in navigation for pages
• ❓ How to: edit a page and add web-parts

3. Site Owners

"Together" portal Site owner is a portal user who has advanced user rights on the whole Sharepoint "Together" portal. 

In general, the site owners have the same rights as contributors, but the main difference is that "Together" site owners will additionally be able to:

• Deploy Together Portal
• Deploy an associated Teams site in Microsoft Teams
• Create new pages on Together
• Manage Navigation on the portal
• Manage users and tenants

If you are a site owner, you must additionally read: 

• 📢 Together, quick start guide
• 🕵🏽‍♂️ Deploy your Together portal and the associated team
• 🕵🏽‍♂️ Together administration (for site owners)