What Is a Department Administrator?

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Kintone Users & System Administrators assign who to be the department administrators.
Once you become a department administrator, you can manage the department and its users.

Relationship Between Kintone Users & System Administrators and Department Administrators

Figure: Showing a relationship between Kintone Users & System Administrators and department administrators

Actions Allowed to Department Administrators

The department administrators can only manage the users and the departments for the departments with delegated administrative privileges granted. They cannot configure some settings, including the job title setting.
The following table describes how department administrators differ from Kintone Users & System Administrators in their allowed configurations:

  • ✔: Indicates actions that administrators are allowed to perform.
  • Empty cell: Indicates actions that administrators are not allowed to perform.
Allowed Action  Kintone
Administrator		 Department Administrator
User Administration Departments & Users  ✔  ✔
Services & Users  ✔  ✔
Granting administrative privileges for a department  ✔  ✔
Job Titles  ✔  
Groups (or Roles)  ✔  
Bulk Actions  ✔  
Department Access Control  ✔  
 System Administration All items  ✔  

For details on how to assign department administrators, refer to the following page:
Assigning Department Administrators

For details on actions performed by department administrators, refer to the following page:
Actions Allowed to Department Administrators