User roles and permissions

1. What is user roles and permissions?
2. What is the difference between roles and permissions?
3. What are the user roles?
4. What is the difference between users and roles?

What is user roles and permissions?

Roles provide a way for community administrators to group permissions and assign them to users or user groups. Permissions define the actions that a user can perform in a community. When they assign roles, community administrators consider the tasks of a user in the context of a particular community.

What is the difference between roles and permissions?

A permission grants users the ability to perform an action on a resource in the WorkMarket platform. A role is a set of one or more permissions and can be assigned to a user to grant a set of permissions.

What are the user roles?

A user role is a predefined category that can be assigned to users on the basis of their job title or some other criteria. Roles are typically used to present customized versions, or views, of a form template to different types of users.

What is the difference between users and roles?

A role typically defines a business function (or set of functions) performed by one or more users. Examples would be 'customer service agent' or 'business analyst'. A user is an individual person who is included in the role - Bob, Nancy, and Steve might be assigned to the customer service agent role.