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# Assistants

# What is an Assistant?

An assistant is a member of an organisation. They have a subset of the capabilities (or rights) of a user and have no ability to manage or create other assistants or users within the organisation. Assistants have to be created by a user, and that user is their parent or owner. The assistant's parent can assign them the authority to act upon an enrolment (principal or agent), or client allocation. An assistant can be orphaned by either their parent user being deleted, or their parent user explicitly orphaning them.

An assistant cannot exist by themselves within an organisation by virtue of the business rules that are applied when the last user in a group deletes themselves. For more information on this see: Deleting a User.

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