The Guest role in Nifty is great for clients, freelancers and other non-team members. While Guests' permissions are scaled back from those on your team, they can still participate in a project without joining your team-chat or team subscription!
Be sure to also check out how you can work alongside Guests while iterating internally by hiding Milestones and Tasks! or create a Custom Role to create a new role what your collaborator can and cannot do to fit your workflow!
What Guests can See and Do
Guests have a meaningful, yet pared back version of Nifty to make collaboration simple and actionable. Guests will join a project in the Home Screen as seen below.
You'll note that Guests do not have access to:
The Portfolio that their project is in
Overviews
Workloads
All Tasks
Team-side emails
Direct message except for with Account Owner (optional)
Within a project, Guests are restricted from taking certain actions, such as:
Project invitations
Adjusting Milestones
Deleting Tasks (unless they've created the task)
Assigning / un-assigning tasks (unless they've created the task)
Creating, deleting, or editing Tags
Enabling or disabling project modules
Meaningful Participation
Nifty Guests are robust project collaborators who can get very involved in a project's workflow.
Guests have great collaborative powers, such as:
Completing tasks (assigned to them or created by them)
Commenting in tasks
Participating in discussions
Creating or uploading documents and files
Downloading our Mobile and Desktop apps
Account Owners can reference the Custom Roles & Permissions tab of Members & Permissions under Workspace Settings for a complete array of Guest permissions.
Inviting a Guest
Guests need to be invited to projects directly.
You can access the invite screen of a project via it's dropdown by selecting either Manage Members or Invite Guests.
Once on the invite screen, insert the email address and (optionally) the name of your Guest, and be sure to select the Guest role from the dropdown before sending out the invite. This will send a Nifty email invitation to your Guest.
You can also invite Guests by generating an invitation link for the Guest role for this project. This would allow you to distribute invitations as a link for any personalized invitations you'd like to send out.
Tips for Guest Collaboration
Guests love Nifty's ease of use and actionability as it creates an all-in-one hub for the timelines, tasks, communications, and documentations of the project.
Here are some tips to enhance your Guest collaboration:
Encourage your Guests to use the Home screen, as it has everything they'll be looking for in a single place -- including all of the tasks assigned to them within the project
Downloading our Mobile app makes collaboration easy and portable
Create a "Guest Approval" Status in Tasks that will automate approval assignments. This methodology is used in the Guest Onboarding video seen below. Feel free to use this video when bringing your Guests onto Nifty!
Have a Client Who Doesn't Want to Use a Software?
Try as you might, some of your clients might refuse to sign up for a collaboration platform. The good news is that they can still remain up to date with your project progress with Nifty's public progress roadmaps.
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