The limitations of Paratext for guest users are grouped below by areas of Paratext use.
When you read each bullet, start with the words: “Guest users CANNOT”
Project registration- Register a project.
- Be registered users.
Send/Receive- Send/Receive a project to the internet.
- Restore projects after a disk failure.
Resources- Access, download, or install resources that are unavailable to the administrator who created the guest registration.
Biblical Terms items- Approve or deny renderings of Biblical Terms.
- Modify the Project Biblical Terms list.
Convert Project tool- Have their name used for a replacement name.
- Make a project folder smaller by either removing deleted files from project history OR by cleaning up Paratext Live history
Progress tracking- Add tasks from another plan.
- Change the expected rate of progress.
- Copy the expected rate of progress.
- Customize stages.
- Modify the project plan.
- Mark project progress.
- Remove tasks, columns, or rows from project progress charts.
Miscellaneous- Create a new project.
- Make Wordlist changes.
- Approve parallel passages.
- Delete/remove themselves from a project.
- Be a project administrator.
- Use Paratext Live over the Internet.
- Access the Paratext website (http://paratext.org/).
Furthermore, the Paratext Registry does not keep track of guest user information (such as registration codes or the role a guest user has on a project).
Guest user registrations are intended to be temporary - until the administrator has internet access and can register those users.
Guest users have limited functionality (as described above) to encourage registration at the administrator’s earliest convenience.
If a project is not registered, it has further limitations listed in Why should I register my project?
See also:
* [How do I make a guest user a registered user?](
http://support.paratext.org/t/how-do-i-make-a-guest-user-a-registered-user/1225)
