Find out what you are allowed to do
Whose job: anyone with an account. You should see the abilities your role carries.
What you are doing
You are finding out which parts of PaveKeep are yours. This takes a minute and it saves the most common wasted afternoon in software like this — looking for a button that is not missing, it is simply not yours.
Your role is set by your council's manager when they invite you. It is not a skill rating and it is not a hierarchy: a surveyor cannot retract a filed survey, and that is not a statement about the surveyor.
What PaveKeep does with it
Nothing. This is a reading step.
What you see is your role and the capabilities it carries. Every screen and every action in the product is gated on one of those capabilities, and the interface shows you what you hold rather than making you discover it by being refused.
What it will not do
- The method — Knowing what you MAY do does not tell you what is YOURS to do. The software can derive permission; it cannot derive whose job something is at your council, and the two are different questions. Each step in this tutorial answers the second one separately.
- The product — Roles are bundles, not a menu. You cannot be given one capability out of a bundle — if you need something your role does not carry, the answer is a different role, and that is your city manager's decision to make.
- What you have not got yet — Which roles your council has actually handed out is a local matter. A small council often runs with two people holding everything between them, and nothing here assumes otherwise.
How you know it worked
Before: an account and an invitation you have accepted.
Do: open your profile.
After: your role, and the list of what it lets you do.
If it is wrong — you were given the wrong role, or your job has changed — your city manager changes it in settings. It takes effect the next time you sign in.
Hand to: nobody. But if the list is missing something you are expected to do, say so now rather than at the point you are blocked by it.
If it went in wrong: there is nothing to undo at this step. What to do instead is under what it will not do, above.