Role and permission Management

[sri_c]

I am a “Plus user” as such “roles and permission management” is locked by default. This makes the application prone to misuse by “users” and “staff”, which in my opinion is undesirable whatever be the membership type. Currently this facility is provided only for PRO and Business. Please consider enabling editing of “roles and permission management” for “plus” users too.

[PeteKnight]

I doubt that will happen, but it would be nice if the default permissions for each role were more sensible…

Managing users

To be honest @iryna_l, the way that these default users are configured is crazy, and Blynk is crippling the product by keeping these defaults, and in my opinion that’s bad for Blynk as well as for users. Blynk Legacy had an app sharing system which allowed non-admin users to use the app, but not edit the app layout or clear the historical data from charts etc. This was a great way to give family members access to a project without them being able to break anything. Because the “user” role has…

Pete.

[sri_c]

Thanks Pete, It is in the interest of Blynk to ensure that their App is robust and insulates members from undesirable outcome. I fail to understand how locking this key feature helps Blynk. Surely, small users like me cannot upgrade to PRO just to get this basic feature !

[Pavel]

We are working on device sharing feature, which is designed to solve this use-case.