“Slab handles departmental access control reasonably well, but it is not a fully granular, enterprise-style RBAC system.”
+ Department-level content isolation
“Department-level content isolation.”
+ Reusable group-based permissions
“Reusable group-based permissions.”
+ Different viewing and editing permissions
“Different viewing and editing permissions.”
+ Individual document restrictions
“Individual document restrictions.”
+ Parent-child topic permission inheritance
“Parent-child topic permission inheritance.”
+ Guest access
“Guest access for people who shouldn't see the entire workspace.”
− Limited custom workspace roles
“Custom workspace roles | Limited to predefined user types”
− Limited custom permission combinations
“Custom permission combinations | Limited”
− Limited complex role hierarchies
“Complex role hierarchies | Limited”
− Limited fine-grained administrative permissions
“Fine-grained administrative permissions | Limited”
− Cumbersome management of numerous exceptions
“Slab can implement many of these distinctions through groups, topics, and individual post permissions, but managing numerous exceptions can become cumbersome.”
− Workspace-level roles not freely customizable
“Its workspace-level roles aren't freely customizable.”
“However, if you're building a knowledge management system where Engineering, Sales, and Support each have multiple roles, subteams, managers, external users, and different document-level privileges, I'd also evaluate Confluence.”