Configure additional permission levels for topic management

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title: Configure additional permission levels for topic management
description: Experience decentralized management of topics by configuring two new permission levels, topic manager and topic contributor.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Employee Experience Foundation
classification: employee-experience-foundation
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Dynamic topic pages, Setup Employee Center browse experience features, Configuring Employee Center, Employee Center, EmployeeWorks, Employee Service Management]
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# Configure additional permission levels for topic management

Experience decentralized management of topics by configuring two new permission levels, topic manager and topic contributor.

## Before you begin

Role required: taxonomy\_admin

## About this task

Use distributed topic management by establishing two new user criteria, **Topic manager** and **Topic contributor**. These roles are additional levels of control introduced along with the existing Taxonomy admin, Taxonomy manager, and Taxonomy contributors.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Content Taxonomy** > **Topics**.

2.  Select the desired topic within a taxonomy and define the user criteria, namely **Topic manager**, and **Topic contributor**.


## Result

Admins can configure additional permission levels to delegate topic management level tasks to these two user criteria. For more information on these two user criteria, see [Topic managers and contributors for topic page management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-experience-foundation/topic-managers-and-contributors-for-topic-page-management.md).

## What to do next

**Note:**

-   Any number of personae could be added to both the permission levels. Additional permissions provided at a topic level are additive, not overriding.
-   Access flows from the root topic to its sub-tree in a top-down manner.

    **Topic manager** and **Topic contributor** can only make changes from the level they have been provided access to and further down the sub-tree.