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title: Unit-based permissions
description: What you need to know about unit-based permissions in Ziik.
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# Unit-based permissions

## What you need to know about unit-based permissions in Ziik.

### **Permissions required**

Users with the role permission **Can manage units** can create, edit and delete **Units** from their own location (Unit) in your organisation. The permission is given to selected **Roles**.

### Units 

Your organization is build with Units in Ziik. A Unit can be any physical or virtual location. I.e. Office, warehouse, store, shop, factory, area, country, ..

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### Your organization

When you create Units in Ziik you will be asked to attach them to their parents. In this way your organization will occur with its natural hierarchic lines.  

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### **How location based permissions work**

Users with the permissions (set at the **Role**) can create content and share it with people in their own Unit and below. 

 

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