Document Permissions

Control who can edit or read documents.


Permissions set & roles

Title
Title
Access / No access
Private or public
Writer
Can edit, Can set doc verification, Can comment, Can delete...
Reader
Can read, Can comment (only at the doc level)
Since Slite is intended to be a collaborative workspace, we don't differentiate between readers and writers in pricing — all full members are charged.
 Member roles⁠  are determined by the owner or admin of a channel. That said, you can always add guests to individual channels, or create a  public channel⁠  that anyone can see.
Keep in mind that workspace owners and admins can  manage all channels.⁠  As such, they can also manage all docs, as long as they don't belong to a someone's private channel.

Cascading permissions

By default, permissions are inherited from parent documents. However you can also customize the permissions at the sub levels to get more flexibility in the way your structure your content. See more on this here:  ⁠⁠Cascading Permissions⁠ 


Making private / Removing access

Just click on the down arrow beside the listed role "Everyone at Your Org" in your Share menu to remove the permission. Then, choose the "no access" role and click 'Restrict access'.

You can also overwrite the permissions at the user level in the Share modal.


How to set up read-only permissions

    .1Open the doc you want to edit the permissions for
    .2Click "share" in the upper right hand corner of the doc
    .3Select whether you want the user to be a reader, writer, or no access


Permissions with users group

You can also manage permissions at scale with  ⁠⁠User Groups⁠ .


Pro tip: protect editing

You don't want to put people as read only but you want to avoid edits by mistake? You can prevent editing for writers by clicking the 3 dots in the right hand corner and toggling "Protect editing".
You can change these permissions at any time.