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Four merged PRs settled the same question in four places: who is allowed to do this?

On audits, admins and owners can now act on any audit in their workspace whether or not it has an assignee, and scanning joins the same gate that already covered notes, photos and Complete. Base and self-service users still have to be assignees. Previously an admin who assigned an audit to a colleague could scan on mobile but was refused at the first note, photo or Complete — often as the audit's own creator.

On team management, three owner-only boundaries are now enforced end to end: only the owner can transfer ownership, only the owner can change or revoke another administrator, and the owner's own access cannot be revoked while they own the workspace. Ownership can no longer be granted by an invitation or a CSV user import either — those accept ADMIN, BASE and SELF_SERVICE only, and a bad role now stops the whole file and names the offending spreadsheet rows.

Content changes

Factual corrections

  • content/knowledge-base/run-your-first-audit.mdx — step 5 said "If you leave this blank, any admin can open the scan page", which implied an assigned audit is closed to admins. Rewritten, plus a new Who can perform an audit? FAQ.
  • content/knowledge-base/shelf-ios-companion-getting-started.mdx — section 8 opened with "and you have been assigned an audit". Admins and owners see every audit in the workspace; only base and self-service are limited to their assignments.
  • content/features/audits.mdx"Assign the audit to a team member" now says you can equally just run it yourself, plus a Who is allowed to run an audit? FAQ.
  • content/knowledge-base/user-roles-and-their-permissions.mdx — the matrix row "Perform assigned audits" was true for all four roles and understated admins. Split into "perform any audit in the workspace" (Owner/Admin) and "perform audits they are assigned to" (all four).

Content enhancements

  • content/knowledge-base/changing-user-roles-in-shelf.mdx — the article spelled out who may change a role but said nothing about who may revoke access, which is the stronger of the two actions. New Who Can Revoke Access section covering the admin-on-admin rule, the owner protection, and SSO deprovisioning of an owner.
  • content/knowledge-base/user-roles-and-their-permissions.mdx — the Owner section now lists the three owner-only actions and states the single path to ownership. Three matrix rows added/reworded: invite roles, change-or-revoke-another-administrator, transfer ownership.
  • content/knowledge-base/transfer-workspace-ownership.mdx — opens by stating transfer is the only route to ownership (not a role change, not an invite, not a CSV import), and a new FAQ answers "can we remove the owner instead?".
  • content/knowledge-base/inviting-users-via-csv-upload.mdx — the accepted role list was already right, but the article never said what happens when it is wrong. Adds an If a Role Is Wrong section with the real error text, the row-naming behaviour, and the point that a rejected file sends nothing at all.

New content

  • content/updates/admins-can-perform-any-audit.mdx — changelog entry for the audit access fix.

Review notes

One deliberate omission: no changelog entry for the three role-boundary fixes. #2860, #2863 and #2865 are privilege-escalation fixes found by the detail.dev OSS scan, and #2860 explicitly flags a GHSA decision as pending. Whether and how those are disclosed publicly is a call for the CTO, not for a content sync, so this PR documents the rules as they stand today, in present tense, with no "previously you could" framing anywhere. If an advisory goes out and you want a matching /updates entry, say so and it can be added in a follow-up.

Every rule stated here was verified against the merged code on main, not against the PR descriptions — INVITABLE_ROLES in modules/invite/roles.ts, the guards in modules/user/utils.server.ts and modules/user/service.server.ts, requireAuditAssignee in modules/audit/service.server.ts, and the disabled-reason strings in components/workspace/users-actions-dropdown.tsx. The quoted CSV error text is the real message from routes/api+/settings.import-users.ts.

Two things checked and left alone:

  • run-your-first-audit.mdx and features/audits.mdx both say each audit supports a single assigned scanner. Still true — AuditTeamMemberSelector is documented and coded as single-select.
  • The in-app copy in start-audit-dialog-content.tsx reads "Choosing assignees also lets those people perform it, including several at different times", which reads as multi-assignee against a single-select control. That is an app-side wording question, not a website one — flagging it rather than mirroring it into the docs.

node scripts/check-product-claims.mjs passes across 547 files.

Impact scope

  • End users affected: workspace owners and administrators (team management, ownership, CSV user import), and anyone running audits on web or mobile.
  • Prospects affected: evaluators checking the permission model — especially IT and education buyers who ask "can an admin take over the workspace?" and "can I hand a count to a student without opening the inventory?"
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  • Pages created: 1

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Update 2026-08-18: audit terminology and bulk booking scope

Three more merged PRs landed on the same pages, so they are added here rather than in a conflicting second PR.

What changed in the product

An expected asset that has not been scanned had four names at once: Missing on the web statistics tile, Expected on the web asset rows, Pending on the Companion audit detail, Remaining on its scanner tab. One of the four was untrue: missingAssetCount is seeded with the full expected count when an audit is created, so a brand new audit reported every asset as Missing before anyone had looked. @shelf/labels now owns auditAssetStatusLabel(status, isAuditCompleted): Not scanned until the audit is completed, Missing after.

#2872 scopes bulk booking Delete, Archive and Cancel to the caller's own bookings for base and self-service users, matching what the singular actions already did.

Content changes

Factual corrections

  • content/knowledge-base/run-your-first-audit.mdx — the statistics list said "Expected / Found / Missing / Unexpected counts (all zeros at the start)", which was wrong twice over: the third tile now reads Not scanned, and it was never zero on a fresh audit. The asset-list chip is "Not scanned", not "Expected". The four-row status table now carries the completion rule, and the filter dropdown sentence names what the filter actually offers in each state.
  • content/features/audits.mdx — the four-status list had both Missing ("expected but never scanned") and Pending ("not yet scanned") as if they were different states. Key Capabilities said "live counts of found, missing, unexpected, and pending assets".
  • content/knowledge-base/delete-audits.mdx — "(Found, Missing, Unexpected, Pending status per asset)" listed a status name that no longer exists.
  • Alt text on three audit screenshots described the old words, including "Audit overview with Expected 19, Found 0, Missing 19 — ready to scan".

Content enhancements

  • content/knowledge-base/user-roles-and-their-permissions.mdx — the Self-service, Base and Administrator sections now say what bulk booking actions reach. The existing matrix row "Manage everyone's bookings" was already correct, so no new row.
  • content/knowledge-base/archiving-bookings.mdx — bulk archive now states that a self-service or base user acts on their own bookings only, including under Select all and including in workspaces where booking visibility is switched on.

New content

  • content/updates/an-audit-only-calls-something-missing-once-it-is-done.mdx — changelog entry, which also carries the #2855 start-time fix in its closing line.

Screenshots

All recaptured from app.shelf.nu against real demo audits, no TODO markers left:

  • features/audits-list.webp — the audits list scrolled to the count columns, header reading Not scanned
  • features/audits-overview-pending.webp — a never-started audit: Expected 20, Found 0, Not scanned 20, Unexpected 0
  • features/audits-overview-active.webp — mid-count: 21 / 17 / 4 / 1
  • features/audits-overview-completed.webp — after completion: 42 / 9 / Missing 33 / 1

Pipeline article at scripts/media-pipeline/articles/audit-not-scanned.mjs in the local tree; not committed here to avoid the run.mjs conflict with other open content PRs.

Deliberately not done

  • No mobile claim. The Companion half of #2853 and #2856 ship with the next companion build; both stores are on 1.3.0 (2026-08-12). Every surface named in this copy is a web surface, and the changelog entry says the app follows in its next release.
  • No changelog entry for #2872. Same reasoning as the three role-boundary fixes above: it is a broken-access-control fix from the same detail.dev cluster, and disclosure framing is the CTO's call. The KB states the rule in present tense only.
  • CSV export not claimed. #2853 updates the PDF receipt (audit-receipt-pdf.tsx reads the same isAuditCompleted rule); no CSV exporter was in the diff, so the copy says "PDF receipt" rather than "PDF and CSV".

Triggered by shelf.nu #2846, #2860, #2863, #2865.

- Audits: admins and owners can perform any audit in their workspace;
  base and self-service must be assignees. Corrects run-your-first-audit,
  the Companion getting-started guide and the audits feature page.
- Team roles: documents who can revoke access, that the owner cannot be
  revoked, and that ownership moves only through a transfer (never via a
  role change, an invite, or a CSV user import).
- CSV user import: OWNER is not an accepted role; a bad role stops the
  whole file and names the spreadsheet rows to fix.
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The PR updates documentation for audit permissions, role authorization, workspace ownership transfer, and CSV invitation validation. It also adds related FAQs, troubleshooting guidance, and metadata date updates.

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Permissions documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Audit permission rules
content/features/audits.mdx, content/knowledge-base/run-your-first-audit.mdx, content/knowledge-base/shelf-ios-companion-getting-started.mdx, content/updates/admins-can-perform-any-audit.mdx
The documentation states that owners and administrators can perform any audit. Self-service and base users can perform assigned audits. The rule applies on the web and in the Companion app.
Role and ownership authorization
content/knowledge-base/changing-user-roles-in-shelf.mdx, content/knowledge-base/transfer-workspace-ownership.mdx, content/knowledge-base/user-roles-and-their-permissions.mdx
The documentation defines revoke-access restrictions, owner-only actions, ownership-transfer requirements, and former-owner removal rules.
CSV role validation
content/knowledge-base/inviting-users-via-csv-upload.mdx
The documentation excludes OWNER from CSV invitations and describes whole-file rejection for invalid or case-mismatched roles. Troubleshooting guidance includes the same checks.

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Triggered by: Shelf-nu/shelf.nu#2853 and #2855, #2872

shelf.nu#2853 gave audits one word for an expected-but-unscanned asset.
It is 'Not scanned' while the audit is open and 'Missing' only once the
audit is completed, on the statistics tile, the asset rows, the audits
list column, the status filter and the PDF receipt. The site described
the old wording, and its 'all zeros at the start' claim was wrong in the
other direction too: a brand new audit reported every asset as Missing.

#2872 scopes bulk booking delete/archive/cancel to the caller's own
bookings for self-service and base users, which the roles page and the
archiving guide now state as a present-tense rule.

Screenshots recaptured from app.shelf.nu (pending, active and completed
audits, plus the audits list showing the Not scanned column).
@carlosvirreira carlosvirreira changed the title content: who can do what — team role boundaries and audit access content: who can do what, and one word for an unscanned audit asset Aug 18, 2026
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Pushed a second batch onto this branch rather than opening a conflicting PR: shelf.nu #2853 (audit terminology), #2855 (audit start time) and #2872 (bulk booking scope) all land on content/features/audits.mdx, run-your-first-audit.mdx and user-roles-and-their-permissions.mdx, which this PR already edits.

The headline correction: a brand new audit used to report every asset as Missing before anyone had scanned. It now reads Not scanned until the audit is completed, and the site said the old thing in five places. Four screenshots were recaptured from app.shelf.nu, including a completed audit that shows the word flipping to Missing.

Title and body updated with the full list. Nothing about the Companion app was changed: that half ships with the next companion build.

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