Managing roles
A role is a group of users associated with a set of user privileges.
Roles are an efficient way to manage permissions for groups of users as
they classify users with similar characteristics and responsibilities.
Roles also determine which parts of Sitefinity a user can view.
The Administrators role is automatically created with each new
Sitefinity project. It is granted full global, content modules, and
sitemap permissions.
You cannot:
- Restrict the permissions granted to the Administrators role.
- Delete the Administrators role.
- Delete the last user in the Administrators role.
You can define the set of privileges for each role and assign users to
roles. All users assigned to a given role inherit the permissions
defined for this role. A user can be assigned zero, one, or many roles.
NOTE: Sitefinity has roles created by default, which have certain permissions assigned to them. For example, Authors, Editors, or Designers. You can delete these roles if you do not need them. To view the permissions assigned to each default role, in the main menu, click Administration » Roles. To view the permissions of a default role, click its Permissions link. If a role has permission for a certain action, the system displays 
in column Allow.
Roles page
You manage roles on
Roles page.
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To open the Roles page, in the main menu in the upper part of the screen, click Administration » Roles.
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To change the view of the list of roles, in the toolbar of Roles page, click one of the following:
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Click
(Grid).
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Click
(Boxes).
Section contents
On the
Roles page, you can perform the following: