Managing an Existing Project: Settings & Permissions
Everything you need to manage your project's privacy, access, and setup, all in one place.
Already created your project? Here's how to adjust permissions, privacy limits, and more, all from one place.
📌 This guide is for managing settings after a project has been created.
If you're looking for help setting up a new project (e.g. with translation or anonymization), check out this article →
How to Access Project Settings
To open your settings:
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Open your project in Caplena
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Click the gear icon (⚙️) in the left-hand menu
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Switch between General, and Permissions tabs at the top
General Tab
Here you can adjust basic project-level behavior related to appearance and privacy.
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Language & Translation Engine
The language and translation engine are selected during project setup.
⚠️ These cannot be changed after the project is created.
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Selected Theme
Choose the visual theme for your reports. -
Report Case Limit
A privacy feature that hides insights based on very few responses.
If the limit is set to 5, any topic or filter combination based on 5 or fewer responses will be hidden, helping protect respondent anonymity.
Permissions Tab: Control Access
This tab allows you to manage who can access your project, what they can do, and how granular their permissions should be.
Project Permissions
These determine what a user can do with the raw project data and its structure (e.g., topics, coding, imports):
Permission | What it allows |
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No access |
User cannot view or access the project |
View |
User can see the project but cannot make changes |
Edit |
User can modify topics, structure, and data |
Append |
User can add new data |
Download |
User can export raw data |
Change permissions |
User can adjust other users' project permissions |
Inherit |
User can copy project´s topics to other projects |
Report Permissions
These control what users can do in the reporting interface
Permission | What it allows |
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View |
User can view reports but cannot make any changes |
Edit |
User can build and modify existing reports |
Create |
User can build new reports for the project |