Roles and Permissions
Gavana has two kinds of access. Canvas roles decide what someone can do on one canvas. Workspace roles decide who can manage a workspace and its members.
Canvas roles
Every canvas has one owner, the person who created it. The owner shares it with other people as Can edit or Can view from the Share dialog.
| What you can do | Owner | Can edit | Can view |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open the canvas | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| See who has access and copy the canvas link | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Add, move and edit nodes, and generate images and videos | Yes | Yes | No |
| Rename the canvas and change its canvas settings | Yes | Yes | No |
| Use Canvas chat and version history | Yes | Yes | No |
| Create a public link to an image or video | Yes | Yes | No |
| Stop a public link | Yes, any on the canvas | Only links they created | No |
| Invite people, change their role or remove them | Yes | No | No |
| Move the canvas to the workspace, or make it private | Yes | No | No |
| Duplicate the canvas or move it to the trash | Yes | No | No |
People who can only view see the canvas without the editing and generation controls.
Workspace roles
Every workspace has one owner, the person who created it. Everyone else is an Admin or a Member, chosen when they’re invited.
| What you can do | Owner | Admin | Member |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open canvases that are in the workspace | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create canvases in the workspace | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| See the members list | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Rename the workspace | Yes | Yes | No |
| Invite people, and resend or revoke invitations | Yes | Yes | No |
| Change a member’s role or remove a member | Yes | Yes, except their own and the owner’s | No |
| Share their own AI key with the workspace | Yes | No | No |
The workspace switcher shows your role in each workspace, for example Admin · 5 members.
How the two fit together
A canvas is either private or in the workspace.
- Private canvases can be opened only by their owner and the people they’re shared with.
- Canvases in the workspace can be opened by everyone in the workspace, who can view them. To let someone edit, the canvas owner shares it with them as Can edit.
A workspace role doesn’t change what you can do on someone else’s canvas: an admin who opens a workspace canvas still needs Can edit from its owner to change it. In the library, the Workspace and Private filters show which is which, and Shared with me lists canvases other people have shared with you.
You can share a canvas with someone who isn’t in your workspace. They can open that one canvas and nothing else in the workspace.