A user role is a set of permissions. Roles are typically defined to include related permissions, and usually correspond to some real-world role; for example the Registrar role would be defined to include those permissions, such as the permission to create enrollments, that real-world registrars need in order to perform their work. In LearningSpace, a user role was known as a user profile, a term that now has a different usage. Back to top of glossary
ExtraView is a "role-based" system. This means that individual users exist as members of user groups, which are defined by their profile, or total set of system privileges. Users may belong to more than one group, and thus may play more than one role. Common roles include: Administrator, Engineer, QA, and Guest.
a combination of user privileges that can be granted to a user
A predefined category that can be assigned to form users based on job title, network domain, or another criterion. Roles are typically used to present customized versions of a form to different types of users.
yKAP Role assigned to a user.
CentraSite assigns access rights on the basis of user roles (rather than user IDs). A user role can be assigned to one or more users. A user to whom a user role is assigned has all the privileges associated with the user role.
The Content Management System contains a line of predefined roles for the user. 1. The anonymous User: is an unregistered user, who is only able to view the various public webpages. 2. Members: A Member can contribute to the community and create content in certain areas. 3. Content manager: The content manager administrates the content of the systems (such as documents, news, images etc.) and connects these with other contents through linking. 4. Manager/Administrator: The administrator is responsible for the operation of the Content Management System (like controlling log files in the system, supervising the data bank, installing new modules etc.) Besides the above there are also further user roles, which can be imported by the installation of add-on products (like news area). The news manager for example is responsible for a particular news area.