Concepts/Responsibility

conceptaccess-governanceCARE 3.0+

A responsibility is a group that gives a person a designation or a duty across Care instance-wide, rather than at one facility. For example, a deployment creates a responsibility for the people who buy supplies for a region. Each person opens the responsibilities that they belong to from their dashboard.

Key Attributes

Components	What it captures
Name	The name of the responsibility. Required.
Description	A short explanation of the duty that the group holds. Optional.
Governance links	The responsibilities that oversee this responsibility, and the responsibilities that this responsibility oversees.

📝 Note

Only a super administrator creates a responsibility, or changes its name and description.

Structure

Responsibilities are a flat list — a responsibility has no parent responsibility and no child responsibility. To connect two responsibilities, use the Governance section in the detail panel of a responsibility on the Responsibilities admin page. The section shows two lists: Managing Organizations and Managed Responsibilities. Both lists hold responsibilities.

📝 Two meanings of "Governance"

Care uses the word "Governance" in two places. The Governance section inside a responsibility links one responsibility to another. The Governance item under Organizations in the Admin sidebar holds government organizations instead.

Roles inside a responsibility

The designation of a person inside a responsibility comes from the roles and permission system: each role gives the person a set of permissions. Care shows only the roles that apply to a responsibility, such as Admin, Manager, and Member. See Roles & permissions for how roles work.

Access through a governance link

A governance link also gives access. If a person's role in a responsibility holds the permission Can Manage Connected Role Organizations, Care also shows them the responsibilities that it manages. The Admin role and the Manager role hold this permission.

Where to find responsibilities

As a super administrator, open the Admin sidebar, select Organizations, then select Responsibilities.
To open a responsibility you belong to, open your dashboard and select the Responsibilities tab.
Inside a responsibility, the top of the sidebar shows the responsibilities switcher, naming the open responsibility and your designation in it. Use the switcher to open another responsibility.

Pages that link here:

Concept: Concepts/Roles & Permissions
Reference: References/Permission Association

Key Attributes

Structure

Roles inside a responsibility

Access through a governance link

Where to find responsibilities

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