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# User Permissions

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## Restrict permissions for different user roles

By **default**, the permissions in DocExport are set to:

**Generate new recipes/templates:** Board Owners and Admins\
**Read and download documents:** Board Members\
**Restricted:** Viewers and Guests

With custom user permissions, you can set individual user permissions per role.

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**Options:**

**1. Define who can read and download documents:**

* Only Board Owners and Admins
* Board Members
* Board Members and Guests

**2. Define who can generate new documents:**

* Only Board Owners and Admins
* Board Members
* Board Members and Guests

Permissions for reading/downloading and generating can be set individually.

## Where to find the settings?

In any DocExport board view, click on the settings icon and on 'Go To App Settings'

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You can now define which user roles are allowed to read/download documents from the DocExport board view and which are allowed to generate new document templates/recipes.

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**Please note:** users can still generate documents via automation if you create an integration/automation (e.g. 'When Status changes, generate document').

The setting above restricts users from creating new templates and/or recipes for document generation.

monday.com file columns are not part of the DocExport restriction. For example: if your item-level recipe saves a PDF to a file column and you want to restrict it to a specific user role, you need to restrict the [column permissions via monday.com](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011926640-Column-permissions)