What can I do, and not do, with a personal guideline (or evidence summary) compared to a guideline with an organizational ownership

Guidelines owned by an organization:

Only guidelines that have an organization as owner can be published with versions, and made public so that all users can access. 

You are required to be appointed as an administrator for an organizational account to be able to create guidelines belonging to that organization. To publish a guideline affiliated with a particular organization you need to be administrator of that guideline. 

Personal guidelines:

Guidelines that are created under your personal account, can be used for exploring, learning or teaching purposes. Personal guidelines cannot be published into versions, or made public, and you cannot invite viewers and co-authors. You also cannot get a Word export of your guideline.

How to get an organizational account?:

Sign up here, and we will contact you. Read more on our project site

Your organization has an account, but you don't have access to create or publish in its name?

To create and publish guidelines in the name of an organization, you need to become an organizational administrator. For this to happen, you need one of the other organizational administrators to assign you as administrator in your organization control panel. To find out more, see Organization control panel (for org administrators).

Last Updated: 30 June 2026