Aurora out-of-the-box community roles

At launch, new communities normally have several default roles. You can add more roles as needed as your community grows. Members who join the community are automatically given the permissions granted in the Community Permission Defaults (see Permission descriptions); the out-of-the-box roles defined here either grant a member permissions additional to (or different from) the default ones or offer a way to designate that a member belongs to a specific group.

Note: Roles are still being researched and developed. These may change in future releases as we add more features.

 

Although these roles are intended for new communities, you can continue to use them as your community matures. For well-established and active communities, however, even the most restrictive roles have more access than you might want to give beginners. As a result, one of the most common roles that many communities create is one that limits access for brand new users (newbies). This role is typically assigned using a rank (coming in a later release) that new users automatically receive as soon as they join the community. It’s also a rank that users can grow out of quickly, so the requirements for the next higher rank, where users acquire additional permissions and drop the newbie role, are typically lenient. You can create your own roles with permission sets that fit the needs of your community.

Related topics:

• Create a role
• Assign roles to members
• Permission descriptions