AHPC Portal Training

Roles and permissions

5 min The Administrator role, or a system administrator account

A role is a set of permissions. Change what a built-in role can do, or make a new role for a job that doesn’t fit the others.

What you will learn

  • Read what a role can do
  • Change a role’s permissions
  • Create or delete a role
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Roles: each card shows how many people have it and how many permissions.
Roles: each card shows how many people have it and how many permissions.

Step by step

  1. Open System administration → Roles.
  2. Each card is a role. Built-in roles came with the portal; Portal marks the professionals’ role.
  3. Click a role. Its permissions are listed in groups, with how many are chosen in each group.
  4. Type in Find a permission… to find one quickly. Tick or untick permissions. Select all and Clear work on a whole group.
  5. Press Save role.
  6. To make a new role, press New role, type a Name and Description, tick its permissions and press Create role.

What you will see

  • A built-in role’s name is fixed, but you can change what it can do.
  • A changed role applies to everyone who has it, the next time they open a page.

Check yourself

Pick an answer for each question, then press Check my answers. Nothing is saved or sent.

1 You want to delete a role you made, but 3 people have it. What happens?