{"id":9464,"date":"2023-11-15T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9464"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:18:37","password":"","slug":"difference-between-global-and-group-internal-permissions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/permissions-management\/permissions\/difference-between-global-and-group-internal-permissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between global and group-internal permissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Global permissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The global permissions are the permissions that apply to your entire ChurchTools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can give them for different properties of users:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><p>Permissions for users who have a certain <strong>status<\/strong>.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><p>Membership of any group of a certain <strong>group type<\/strong> allows you to assign permissions that apply to the whole system.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><p>By becoming a member of a specific <strong>group<\/strong>, you can also assign permissions that affect the entire system.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can also give permissions directly to&nbsp;<strong>individual users<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-80af7bfe1f2cac9aad48f56ff78dd877 is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#e7c000;border-left-width:0.5rem;color:#3f3400;background-color:#ffe5644d;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Warning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">You should only authorise users directly in exceptional cases! It makes more sense to assign permissions via\u00a0<strong>status or group membership<\/strong>\u00a0so that you can keep an overview of your permissions management.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group-internal permissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Global permissions that apply to the entire system can be given to a group. In addition, with the group-internal permissions you also have the option of giving permissions via group memberships, which are only valid within the group in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-artikel-zum-weiterlesen has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-89fd719a wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:8px;background-color:#f9fafb;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:24px;padding-top:32px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:32px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Read more<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/permissions-management\/assigning-permissions\/how-to-give-global-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9474\">How to give global permissions?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/permissions-management\/assigning-permissions\/21-how-to-give-group-internal-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9475\">How to give group-internal permissions?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global permissions The global permissions are the permissions that apply to your entire ChurchTools. You can give them for different properties of users: Group-internal permissions Global permissions that apply to the entire system can be given to a group. 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