Announcement: Basic users are becoming read-only

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Happy New Year to you and your Components!

Starting on March 1st, 2025, paid sites with Basic Users will no longer be able to delete components, edit custom fields, or create new repos from templates. If you have a free site these changes have already taken effect. 

Reason for the change: Compass Admins we work closely with have been confused by the Basic User Role and had trouble understanding what those users could/could not edit in Compass. This change is meant to make it more straightforward to explain the Basic User Role (it's Read-only!) and feel safe inviting stakeholders from across your organization to Compass.

We email every team affected by the change last week. If you haven't heard from us, you don't have any Basic Users taking these actions today. 

To view the list of basic users on your site, go to Atlassian Admin → Directory → Groups and search for the “compass-basic-users“ to review the users in the basic user group. Administrators will still be able to elevate users' permissions at any time by adding users to an appropriate user group. 

Any questions I can answer here? Also feel free to reach out to support.

[testpinaack]

Hello Team,

Is there an option to grant a full user the permission to delete a component?

Your guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated, and we look forward to your support.

Thank you for your assistance!

[Aidan Cunniffe]

Hey @testpinaack Full Users should already be able to delete Components unless you have restricted mode enabled. 

What exactly are you seeing?