Appendices
Permissions quick reference and glossary.
Permissions quick reference
"Administrator" and "super administrator" are EOMIS roles. Channel roles (owner, admin, member) apply inside one Messenger channel.
| Capability | Who |
|---|---|
| Chat in channels and DMs, react, reply, edit or delete your own messages, search, floating bubbles | Any workspace member |
| Create a channel | Any workspace member |
| Pin and unpin messages | Any channel member |
| Post in an announcement channel | Channel owner or admin |
| Create a workspace | Super administrator |
| Manage workspace members, view the audit log, reorder channels | Administrator |
| Manage channel members, delete a channel | Administrator who is the channel's owner or admin; any super administrator |
| Compose a communication | Any signed-in user |
| Resolve, close, or reopen a communication thread | Thread creator |
| Archive or restore a communication in your own inbox | Any participant, once the thread is resolved, closed, or an expired announcement |
| Add action items, change an item's validator, decide extension requests | Thread creator |
| Work on (claim, complete) action items | To recipients (only the assignee, if one is set) |
| Validate or reject a completed action item | The item's validator (the thread creator by default) |
| Add PGAS employees, invite external users, suspend or reactivate accounts, reset passwords | Administrator |
See Workspace & Channel Administration and User Management for details.
Glossary
- Workspace: the top-level Messenger container, with its own channels, direct messages, and member list. You may belong to several.
- Channel: a shared conversation space in a workspace. Types: Public, Private, Announcement.
- System channel: the built-in Announcements channel every workspace starts with; it cannot be deleted.
- Thread (Messenger): a reply chain attached to one channel message, expanded inline. Collected in your Threads inbox. See Threads.
- Quote reply: the DM reply style, where your message carries a clickable quote of the original. See Direct Messages.
- Announcement channel: a Messenger channel type where only owners and admins post and everyone else reads.
- Communication: a formal inbox thread with a sender, recipients, validators, CC, a subject, and a lifecycle (open → resolved or closed → archived). See The Communications Inbox.
- Announcement (Communications): a broadcast communication with an expiry date and no reply discussion; read-only once expired.
- For Action: a communication that carries action items; it can only be resolved once every item is validated or cancelled.
- Action item: a tracked deliverable inside a For Action thread: claimed, completed with evidence, then validated or rejected. See Working with Action Items.
- Validator: the person who approves or rejects a completed action item.
- MOV: means of verification, the evidence files attached when completing an action item.
- PGAS account: your single sign-on account at
auth.pgas.ph, used for EOMIS and other PGAS systems. Your password and two-factor methods live there, not in EOMIS. See Signing In. - Two-factor authentication (2FA): an optional second proof of identity at sign-in (an authenticator app, a passkey or security key, or recovery codes), set up on your PGAS account. See Account Security.
- Presence: the green online dot on avatars, updated in real time.