Custom roles available permissions

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In addition to the default roles, there is an option to create various new custom roles for your agents. Below you can find a list of all available permissions that can be attributed to custom roles.

Available permissions

  • Agents
    • Manage agents (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Configuration > Agents section, where the agent will be able to create, clone, manage, or delete agents' accounts with the default agent role or custom roles. This permission does not allow creating, cloning, managing, or deleting agents with the admin or owner roles.
    • Manage agents membership (Revoked by default) - Allows adding agents to and removing them from departments. An agent with this permission can manage the members only of the departments to which the agent is added. The role the agent has in a specific department is superior to this global permission. 
  • Agent Status
    • Manage agents statuses (Revoked by default) - Allows changing the availability status of any agent for tickets, chats, and calls in departments, or pausing and logging out any agent from the Dashboard > Agents section. The agent with this permission can also manage work allocators in departments to which the agent is added. The role the agent has in a specific department is superior to this global permission. 
  • Rating
    • View ratings of other agents (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Reports > Agents' ratings section, where the agent can view agents' ratings and their comments given by customers to all agents, view tickets where ratings were given (if applicable), and invalidate given ratings. The "View reports" permission is not required to have access to this section.
    • Invalidate rating (Revoked by default) - Allows invalidating agents' ratings given by customers. Invalidating a rating will remove it from a ticket and from reports, but not from the Agents' ratings section. To be able to invalidate ratings, the "View ratings of other agents" permission is needed in order to have access to the Reports > Agents' ratings section.
  • Tag
    • Manage tags (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Configuration > Tags section, where the agent can create, edit, or delete tags. Additionally, this permission allows the agent to create a new tag directly in any ticket while adding tags to it.
  • Contact group
    • Manage contact groups (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Customers > Contact groups section, where the agent can create, edit, or delete contact groups, and allows assigning contacts to contact groups in a contact's profile.
  • Smart answers
    • Manage canned messages (Revoked by default) - Allows the agent to display, create, edit, or delete canned messages available for all other agents than himself. Canned messages available for "All" or for the departments into which the agent is added are visible, but cannot be managed without this permission.
    • Manage predefined answers (Revoked by default) - Allows the agent to display, create, edit, or delete predefined answers available for all other agents than himself. Predefined answers available for "All" or for the departments into which the agent is added are visible, but cannot be managed without this permission.
  • Knowledgebase
    • Manage knowledgebases and their settings (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Settings section of every customer portal of your LiveAgent account, allowing the agent to change the configuration of the customer portal. Does not allow customizing the Submit ticket form or customer portal chat button.
    • Manage knowledgebase content (Granted by default) - Allows the agent to create, manage, or delete knowledgebase articles, categories, or forums. Does not forbid the agent from displaying the structure of a knowledge base.
  • Contacts
    • Edit contacts (Granted by default) - Allows the agent to save any customer's or company's profile account, regardless of whether any change in the contact's profile has been done by the agent.
    • Delete contacts (Granted by default) - Displays the "Delete" option in Customers > Contacts and Customers > Companies to delete contacts.
    • Export contacts to CSV (Granted by default) - Displays the export button in Customers > Contacts, allowing the agent to export contacts into a CSV file.
  • Reports
    • View reports (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Reports section and all its sub-sections except the Agents' ratings section (see the "Invalidate rating" permission), where the agent will be able to see all reports of all departments & agents. Default agents have access only to their own performance report in the Reports section.
  • WhatsApp
  • Ticket
    • Reply in ticket (Granted by default) - Allows replying to tickets. The role the agent has in a specific department is superior to this global permission.
    • Create new ticket (Granted by default) - Allows creating a new ticket of any source (Email, Call, Facebook post, etc.).
    • Purge deleted ticket (Revoked by default) - Displays the "Purge" button to the agent in a deleted ticket, and allows using the "purge ticket and stop rules execution" mass action.
    • Perform mass actions on selected tickets (Granted by default) - Allows selecting multiple tickets and resolving, marking as spam, deleting, or performing mass actions on them.
    • Close ticket (Revoked by default) - Allows the agent to resolve (close) tickets. Together with the ability to change the ticket state, this permission is also required to permanently delete a ticket. The role the agent has in a specific department is superior to this global permission.
    • Export tickets to CSV (Granted by default) - Displays the export button in the tickets list, allowing the agent to export the listed tickets into a CSV file.
  • Ticket Attachments
    • Remove ticket attachments (Revoked by default) - Grants agents the option to delete attachments from tickets from the ticket item directly or from the Ticket Attachments tab in the ticket details section.
  • Calls
    • Listen calls (Revoked by default) - Allows the agent to listen to an ongoing call in a ticket.
    • View telephony settings (Revoked by default) - Grants access to the Configuration > Call section, where the agent can only view the list and settings of connected phone numbers, devices, and extensions.
    • Edit telephony settings (Revoked by default) - Allows adding, editing, and deleting connected phone numbers, devices, and extensions. To be able to perform mentioned actions, the View telephony settings permission is needed in order to have access to the Configuration > Call section and be able to see connected phone numbers, devices, and extensions.
    • Manage agents devices (Revoked by default) - Allows adding or removing agents' devices in their profile settings. To be able to perform the mentioned actions, the Manage agents permission is needed in order to have access to the Configuration > Agents section and to be able to manage agents' accounts.
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