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Creating a custom role

Create a custom role on the

User Roles

page. When you create a role, you must configure the privileges that are associated with the role. You configure privileges separately for each service.

To create a custom role, you can create a new role or clone an existing role. A new role has no privileges until you configure them. A cloned role has the same privileges as the role that you clone, but you can change the privileges.

Administrator

, select

User Roles

Perform either of the following actions:

To create a new role, click

Add Role

To clone an existing role, in the row that contains the role that you want to clone, click

Actions

and select

Clone

. You can clone any role except for the Admin role.

Enter a role name and optional description.

In the

Services

field, select the service for which you want to configure privileges.

For example, to configure privileges for

Data Integration

, select

Data Integration

. To configure administrative privileges, select

Administrator

To configure the asset privileges, select

Assets

, and enable or disable the appropriate privileges for each asset type.

For example, to enable users with the role to create folders, enable

Create

next to

Folder

To configure the feature privileges, select

Features

, and enable or disable the appropriate privileges.

For example, to prevent users with the role from importing assets, disable

Asset - import

Repeat steps 4 through 6 for each service.

Click

Save

After you create a role, you can assign it to a user or user group. To assign the role to a user or group, edit the user or group.

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