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User Manual · Chapter 1 — Working in BlossomERP: the shared grammar

1.12 Permissions — why some buttons simply are not there

BlossomERP hides what you may not do. If your role does not include an action — approving payments, releasing a credit hold, editing a company's switches — the button, link, or menu item is absent, not greyed out. A screen therefore shows each person exactly their own job, and a missing action is information, not a malfunction: it means the task belongs to another role.

Three corollaries worth knowing:

  • Nothing is half-hidden. A whole module switched off disappears for everyone (§0.4); a permission you lack removes its actions from lists, record pages, and view-page headers alike.
  • Links cannot smuggle you in. Following a link to a page you may not open lands on a friendly "not permitted" page, not on the data.
  • Nobody can give what they do not have. Roles are edited from the permissions the editor personally holds, so authority cannot be quietly escalated — the company administrator is the highest authority inside your company, and that is by design (see Chapter 16).

If you need an action you cannot see, the remedy is a conversation with your company administrator about your role — there is no setting on the page itself, because the page is honestly showing you your permissions.

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