Managing Channel permissions

You can control the permissions and visibility of Channels for users in your DISCO.

At a glance

Only Channel Managers can manage Channel permissions. Channels can also be set to be visible to everyone in your DISCO, specific users only, or private only to you.

📎 Note: Updating Channel permissions won't restrict access to Playlists or Tracks. These can still be viewed by users in your DISCO via the Explorer, Search, and other Channels.

Channel roles

Every Channel has Managers and Members. When a new Channel is created, the person who created it automatically becomes a Manager of that Channel, and their name will auto-populate in the Select channel managers field. They can then choose to add Members and/or other Managers.

Managers can:

✅ view Channels in their DISCO

✅ add content to Channels

✅ remove content from Channels

✅ edit Channels

rename
add/remove Managers and Members
update Visibility

✅ delete Channels

Members can:

✅ view Channels in their DISCO

✅ add content to Channels

✅ remove content from Channels

Members can't:

❌ edit Channels

❌ delete Channels

❗️Important: Channel roles vs. DISCO user Labels

Channel roles differ from DISCO user Labels. In your account Settings, on the Users page, you can see a list of users and their Labels in your DISCO: Admin or User.

With that in mind, even if you're an Admin in a DISCO, there may still be Channels within that DISCO that you can't see or manage. In other words, being an Admin in a DISCO does not automatically make you a Manager of a Channel in that DISCO. Channel Managers are appointed automatically when Channels are created, and they can only be manually appointed by other Channel Managers.

Managing Channel permissions

You can manage Channel permissions after a Channel has been created. Channel permissions are accessible from the Share channel menu. There are three ways to access this menu:

from the left sidebar
from within a Channel
from your account Settings > Workspace Settings > Channels

Channel permissions consist of:

adding and removing Managers
adding and removing Members
updating Channel visibility (new Channels are visible to all users by default)

Adding and removing Channel Managers

To add Managers:

In the Share channel menu, from the My team tab, under Select channel Managers, search or select their names from the dropdown.
Click the Save button.

To remove Managers:

In the Share channel menu, from the My team tab, under Select channel Managers, click the X to the right of their name.
Click the Save button.

Adding and removing Channel Members

To add Members:

From the Share channel menu, under Make channel visible to, search or select their names from the dropdown.
Click the Save button.

To remove Members:

From the Share channel menu, under Make channel visible to, click the X to the right of their name.
Click the Save button.

Updating Channel visibility

If you'd like the channel to be visible to all users in your DISCO:

In the Share channel menu, from the My team tab, under Make channel visible to, select All users.
Click the Save button.

If you only want the Channel to be visible to specific users:

In the Share channel menu, from the My team tab, under Make channel visible to, select Selected users and search or select their names from the dropdown.
Click the Save button.