> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ansvisor.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Menu access

> Choose which left-menu sections each role and each person sees, let managers do it too, and pick what you work on.

**Menu access** decides which sections are on each person's left menu, so everyone sees the part of Ansvisor they use. A Brand & PR manager can work without Content and Audit in the way; an agency partner can see only the content work.

It only hides. A section off someone's menu still opens from a link, and what their role can do there doesn't change. To change what someone can do, change their role in **Settings → Team**.

## Fold a group

Each titled group on the left menu, **Analytics** and **Execution**, folds under its title: click the title, and the chevron on its right turns. The menu opens with every group open; a folded group stays folded in that browser and opens by itself on one of its pages. **Chat** and **Agent Center** above the groups, and **Reports** and **Competitors** below them, have no title and don't fold. With the menu narrowed to icons, every item shows.

## Who changes menus

**Admins** change menus, and can let **managers** do it too: in **Settings → Menu access → Who can change menus**, switch a manager on. A manager who changes menus sees **Menu access** in Settings, and nothing else of the admins' settings. They change what each role sees and every non-admin's menu, never an admin's. Only admins choose who changes menus.

A manager who becomes another role stops changing menus. Someone who leaves the organization leaves their menu behind.

## Choose what each role sees

**Settings → Menu access → Sections each role sees** lists the left menu's sections, by its groups, with a column for each role. Tick what a role sees; each box is saved as you click it.

* **Admin** is always **Everything**.
* **Action Center** is on everyone's menu and can't be turned off: it's where the work is.
* **Use a set…** fills a role's column from a work area's ready-made set (below), or **Everything**. Adjust it from there.

Until an admin hides something, every role sees every section.

## Change one person's menu

**Settings → Menu access → People** lists everyone but the admins. Each person shows:

* their role;
* the work areas they picked;
* their menu: named after their role, like **Analyst's menu**, or **Custom: +Prompts, −Content** when it differs from their role's;
* how many sections it keeps.

**Customize** opens their sections, ticked as their role has them:

* tick or untick a section to show or hide it for that person alone, even one their role hides;
* a change from the role is marked **shown for them** or **hidden for them**;
* each box is saved as you click it;
* **Use Analyst's menu** (named after their role) takes their changes back.

## Pick what you work on

Each person can say what they work on or lead. Their menu then keeps only those areas' sections:

| Work area | Sections |
| - | - |
| Founders & leaders | Action Center, Chat, Agent Center, Visibility, Mentions, AI Referral Traffic, Reports, Competitors |
| AEO/GEO & Audit | Action Center, Agent Center, Content, Audit, Citations, AI Referral Traffic, Reports |
| Content | Action Center, Chat, Agent Center, Content, Prompts, Citations, Reports |
| Brand & PR | Action Center, Chat, Agent Center, Visibility, Mentions, Citations, Reports, Competitors |
| Growth | Action Center, Chat, Agent Center, Visibility, Prompts, Citations, AI Referral Traffic, Reports, Competitors |
| Product Development | Action Center, Chat, Agent Center, Visibility, Prompts, Mentions, Product Visibility, Reports |
| Business Development | Action Center, Chat, Agent Center, Visibility, Prompts, Mentions, Citations, Reports, Competitors |
| Developers | Action Center, Agent Center, Audit, Prompts, Citations, AI Referral Traffic, Reports |
| Analytics | Action Center, Agent Center, Visibility, Prompts, Mentions, Citations, Product Visibility, AI Referral Traffic, Reports, Competitors |

Mentions and Citations are tabs of Visibility, and stay sections of their own: a menu without them shows Visibility with the tabs it keeps. Pick one or more; none means every section. **Settings** is always on the menu, with your API keys and MCP.

**What do you work on?** is asked once:

* when you sign up, after your competitors and before you choose a plan;
* when you join from an invitation, on your first sign-in, with the workspace's name and your first name, like **Welcome to Acme Workspace, Ada**;
* on a self-hosted install, the first time the admin opens the dashboard.

**Skip: show me everything** keeps every section. Change your answer any time in **Settings → Account → Your work areas**, which also shows your menu and why a section is off it: **Hidden by your admin** or **Not in your work areas**.

## How a menu is worked out

A person's menu is:

1. their role's sections;
2. changed by their own exceptions (People → Customize);
3. narrowed to the sections of their work areas, when they picked any.

Action Center always stays. Nobody takes a section off an admin's menu; only an admin's own work areas narrow it. A section added to Ansvisor later is on everyone's menu until someone hides it.

When something is off your menu, the bottom of the sidebar says how much, as **3 sections off your menu**, with **Change** leading to your work areas.

> [!NOTE]
>
> **Self-hosting:** menu access needs migration `00374_menu_access.sql`. Apply it before you upgrade the web app (see [Upgrading](https://docs.ansvisor.com/self-host/upgrading.md)). It counts everyone already in your workspace as asked, so only new and invited people see **What do you work on?**.


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