Roles
- Elaine Foley
Create a Role
Open Roles
Press Create
Define User Rights
Save
In the detail view of the role, you can directly assign users.
After the Creation of the Role
Add the role to Permission Sets
Add the role to a user
Add the role to a channel
Access Role in User Search
The Roles are saved in a field called:
userRoleId
Therefore you can search for Roles in the menu Users to find all users of a role. You cannot access roles in the Content Browser, but only Permission Sets.
Case | Value |
Exact Match | userRoles.userRoleId:GUID |
Has no Role assigned | -_exists_:userRoles.userRoleId |
Has Role assigned | _exists_:userRoles.userRoleId |
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Update a Role
Open Roles
Select your desired role
Update role details or user rights
Save
Delete a Role
Open the desired menu
Look for the delete icon
Choose delete from the context menu or the toolbar in the browser or detail view
Confirm your desire to delete.
Roles with users cannot be deleted. You must remove the users first.
Delete Users of a Role
You can only delete roles when no users are assigned.
You can open the role, click & select all users and remove all users.
You can search for the users of this role.
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Best Practice Role Setup
A best practice role setup follows a certain naming convention, that allows a sort of grouping. This way new roles can be added easily.
10 Super Admin (mainly Picturepark support)
20 Administrators
21 Admins Germany
22 Admins Switzerland
23 Admins Austria
30 Editors Schema
31 Editors Germany
32 Editors Switzerland
33 Editors Austria
40 Editors Content (Metadata)
41 Editors Germany
42 Editors Switzerland
43 Editors Austria
50 Reader Picturepark
51 Reader Internal
51 Reader Dealer
60 Reader Portal
61 Reader Pres