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This PR adds a new _documentation/constance-config.md page covering:

  • Where Constance: Config lives in the admin (Settings → Constance → Config) and how to edit a setting
  • That access is granted by the Administrative Developer (AD) role — not django superuser
  • That a subset of settings remain root-restricted to Canvas Medical engineering
  • How an instance admin grants the AD role, with a fallback to support if no one on the team has it
  • The four common reasons a setting may not appear (role, root-restricted, not yet shipped, wrong instance)

The 2025-04-07 canvas-chat release note now links to this page so future release notes that touch a Constance setting have a single canonical place to point.

Sent via Claude on Beau's behalf.

@bexport-gh, @rmagier1 please check the "root-restricted carve-out" framing — happy to revise if there's a cleaner way to describe which settings stay out of AD reach

Do not merge until docs-team review.

Customers do have Constance: Config access on their own instances when
their staff hold the Administrative Developer (AD) role; previous draft
incorrectly stated superuser-only. Per Bex Portela and Reba Magier:
AD-role staff get the Constance section; a small subset of settings
remains root-restricted to Canvas Medical engineering.

New _documentation/constance-config.md covers where the section lives,
who can access it (AD role), how an instance admin grants the role, the
root-restricted carve-out, and the four common reasons a setting may not
appear. The 2025-04-07 canvas-chat release note now links to it.
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rmagier1 commented Sep 8, 2026

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This is more help center article so I created: https://help.canvasmedical.com/articles/4646004700-config-constance-settings and going to close this in favor

@rmagier1 rmagier1 closed this Sep 8, 2026
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