Items' privacy

All items in Firebits have an inherent privacy setting. Firebits items' privacy is configured by two parameters:

Privacy Type

Firebits items' privacy type can be either Private or Shared.

Private privacy

When setting the privacy of an item to Private, only the creator of the item will be able to view and edit it.

Shared privacy

When setting the privacy of an item to Shared, you will have the option to share the item with anyone within your network or with Everyone in Firebits, also known as the Public privacy setting.

Role

When an item has a Shared privacy, a privacy role must be defined for every entry. The available roles are Viewer and Editor.

Viewer role

Users with the Viewer role will only be able to:

• View the item
• View the item's details
• View the item's notes

Editor role

Users with the Editor role, will only be able to:

• Add new notes to the item
• Edit the item's tags
• Create new items (if the shared item is of the Collection type)
• Write to the item (if the shared item is of the Document type)

By default, all items are created with their privacy set to Public with the View role, which means that everyone can view them, but cannot perform any operation that requires write permissions, such as adding tags or notes.

Nested items (items within a Collection item) inherit the privacy from the collection item they belong at the moment they are created.