## Edit Custom Privilege Flags

The Edit Custom Privilege Flags page allows system administrators to add, update, and remove site-specific privilege flags. Custom privilege flags can be used anywhere the default privilege flags are used and are intended to provide finer-grained control of the collection development workflow or to provide new functionality.

One possible use of custom privilege flags is to create a class of users who are in charge of reviewing and adding notes to unreleased resource records before they are released into the public collection. The system administrator could create a custom privilege flag, e.g., Reviewer, assign that privilege flag to the users who would review resource records, and create two new metadata fields: a user field called Reviewer and a paragraph field called Reviewer Notes. The Reviewer field should be configured to restrict its value to users with the Reviewer privilege flag, and the Reviewer Notes field should be configured to allow editing only when the user is the value of the Reviewer field. A collection administrator could then assign a resource record to a reviewer by setting the Reviewer field of the record to the user who should review it. For more information on creating and configuring metadata fields, see the Metadata Field Editor help page.

Custom privilege flags can be added by typing the name of the new privilege flag in the first available input box. The name should be short but descriptive. Multiple custom privilege flags can be created at a time by clicking the ``Add another field permission`` button, which will create a new, empty input box for another custom privilege flag. Clicking the ``Save`` button will save the new privilege flags along with any modifications to existing privilege flag names. Clicking the ``Delete`` button associated with a custom privilege flag will delete it after the user confirms the deletion.

### See Also

- Metadata Field Editor