How to check my OSD role
The Online Standards Development (OSD) platform has five roles with differing levels of permissions.
Your current role appears in the top right of the display:
A user logged in as an OSD Voter
Please note
Some users are able to Change role via the Other actions menu (see above image).
1 TC authoring phase roles
1 Author role
Corresponds to the experts of the PT/WG/MT (with this associated OSD role and permissions granted to those registered as such in EMS), who can read/write/comment on content.
2 Leader role
Corresponds to the committee officers, project leader and leadership of the PT/WG/MT (with this associated OSD role and permissions granted to those registered as such in EMS) who, in addition, can accept/reject proposed changes to the content made by authors and can resolve comments made.
These roles (1.1 and 1.2) become inactive during the NC commenting and ballot phases.
2 NC commenting and ballot phase roles
There are three roles at these stages (OSD Voter, OSD Manager, OSD Commenter). Some countries will use all three, other countries will use two (Voter, Commenter).
These roles are explained in the online learning and are inactive during the TC authoring phases.
3 Understanding role details
As explained above, a user can have different roles in OSD depending on the project and project stage. Their roles will depend on their accounts in the Expert Management System and Symphony. As explained in the OSD online learning and other training, not all countries will use Symphony and the OSD Manager role is not used by every National Committee.
The below detailed view of the roles is provided for your information but is a level of detail beyond what most users should need to understand.
Entity | OSD role | Managed by | Provided to |
Technical Committee / Subcommittee | Leader | EMS | TC/SC Officers (Chair, Vice chair, Secretary and Assistant Secretary) WG/MT Convenor, Assistant Convenor, Secretary Committee Manager, Assistant Committee Manager PT Project Leader SDBT Manager JTC & SC Officers (Committee Manager, Assistant Committee Manager) Technical Area (TA) Officers (Manager, Secretary, Assistant Secretary) Advisory Committee (AC) Officers (Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Assistant Secretary) Strategic Group (SG) Officers (Convenor, Assistant Convenor, Secretary) |
Author | EMS | WG/MT/PT member WG/MT/PT liaison member | |
National committee | OSD Voter | EMS | OSD NC Voter TC |
Symphony | OSD NC Voter TC/SC | ||
OSD Manager | EMS | OSD NC Manager TC | |
Symphony | OSD NC Manager TC/SC | ||
OSD Commenter | EMS | TC | |
Symphony | OSD NC Commenter TC/SC/Project |
OSD roles give different level of permissions depending on the current stage of the project:
OSD role | Stage | Permission |
Leader | Authoring stages (PWI, ACD, CDM, PCC, ACDV, ADPAS, ADTR, ADTS, AFDIS, PRVD, PRVDPAS, PRVDTR, PRVDTS) | Can read and edit the content Can accept/reject track changes Can add comment and read comment from other experts Can manage other comments (from TC’s experts and from NC’s experts) Can propose comment resolution Can unlock all clauses Can compare versions Can save version Can export PDF Can export Docx Can export all comments and submitted comments Can import comments |
Proposal stage (PNW) Committee stage (CD) Enquiry stage (CCDV) Final approval stage (CFDIS) | Can read the content Can not add comment Can not read others comment | |
Author | Authoring stages (PWI, ACD, CDM, PCC, ACDV, ADPAS, ADTR, ADTS, AFDIS, PRVD, PRVDPAS, PRVDTR, PRVDTS) | Can read and edit the content Can add comment and read comment from other experts Can unlock their clauses Can compare versions Can export PDF Can export all comments and submitted comments |
Proposal stage (PNW) Committee stage (CD) Enquiry stage (CCDV) Final approval stage (CFDIS) | Can read the content Can not add comment Can not read others comment | |
OSD Voter | Proposal stage (PNW) Committee stage (CD) Enquiry stage (CCDV) Final approval stage (CFDIS) | In online project: Can read the content Can read comment from others National committee users Can add comment, propose a resolution and submit comment Can export all comments from their National Committee from the current stage Can export all submitted comment from their National Committee from the current stage Can import comments as submitted or as unresolved Can pause and resume commenting Can export PDF output In Symphony: Can grant access rights to other OSD Voter, OSD Managers and OSD Commenters Can remove access rights to other OSD Voter, OSD Managers and OSD Commenters |
OSD Manager | In online project: Can read the content Can read comment from others National committee users Can add comment, propose a resolution Can export all comments from their National Committee from the current stage Can export all submitted comment from their National Committee from the current stage Can import comments as unresolved Can export PDF output
In Symphony: Can grant access rights to other OSD commenters Can remove access rights to other OSD commenters | |
OSD Commenter | In online project: Can read the comment Can add comment, propose a resolution and submit comment | |
OSD Voter | Other stages | Can not access the online project |
OSD Manager | ||
OSD Commenter |