How access works

Access is managed per map and is hierarchical — each level includes everything the level below it can do.

Each access entry grants a level to one subject:

• a character
• a corporation
• an alliance

When someone opens a map, the app gathers every non-expired entry that matches their character, its corporation, and its alliance, and grants them the highest level among them. So a pilot whose character is only a Viewer but whose corp has Manager gets Manager.

Each entry can also carry an optional expiration date, after which it simply stops counting.

Corporation and alliance membership is checked again every hour, whether or not the pilot is signed in. Someone who leaves a corporation loses the access it gave them within about two hours, since EVE itself only reports a change once an hour. An entry for the character itself keeps counting whichever corporation it joins.

Owner

The pilot who creates a map is its owner. The owner is the only one who can delete the map, and the owner's own access entry can't be edited or removed by anyone.

Who can manage access

Only Managers (and the owner) can see and edit the access list. Viewers and Members can use the map but can't change who else has access.

The next pages cover the three roles and public maps and share links.