Better Admin Controls

entirely sensible

Use case: As the admin of an Education Plan, a Team Admin (teacher) may want to block board or project create access for students, to avoid 100s of boards from being created. (If this is already possible, please let me know!)

This is also a backup issue … as Team Admin who does not actually ever create or edit boards, I also can’t perform a backup.  There really should be a ‘superadmin’ who has access to EVERYTHING, so, in corporate environment like mine, you can have IT or administrative staff member who manages backup/restore, permissions, onboarding of new members, offboarding of staff leaving the company and reassignment of their boards, and such.

As a Company Admin of a Consultant Plan, I want to ability to see and modify and board’s public sharing settings.

We sign legal contracts with our (global financial services) clients in which we warrant that we will keep our clients’ content secure. The idea that any team member can make our clients’ content available to anyone on the internet who has the link and that as a “company admin” I can’t prevent that and worse am not even notified is frankly frightening!

This seems like a weird thing to have on a “wishlist” to me - as a business owner and company admin, there’s no other enterprise software we pay for where I don’t have complete control over the content created within my company’s account. Admin ability to perform basic functions like backups and changing board names isn’t a feature, but a basic requirement of a SaaS content generation tool. How does it make any sense that I can remove a user, assign all of their boards to myself, then do whatever I want, but I can’t modify their boards while they remain a user?

Not meaning to rant, but this is a basic problem that I encounter all the time because I have ~25 users across dozens of projects and probably thousands of boards. (And I wouldn’t have so many boards if it were actually feasible to back up content and move it into storage out of Miro.)

Hi @JLF 

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feedback about the admin controls. We apologize if this has created any frustrations when working in Miro.

We will be sure to share this feedback with our team and update this thread if this feature becomes available.

In the meantime, for those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for you or your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request.

Cheers.

This is already possible with admin right Content admin assigned.

You can invite yourself to any board and then switch ownership or set co ownership iff assigned in team permissions.

You can then perform all actions with the board as you please.

In the end you can assign the old owner again.

It is a clumsy way not suitable for handling many boards. But it works now. I have done this 20+ times.

Thanks so much for this helpful tip, @Lutz Morrien! Appreciate it!