About Aurora roles and permissions

Your community uses permissions to determine the actions that your community members can take and which community areas and features they can access. Instead of setting each of these permissions manually, permission settings are grouped into roles and then you can assign these roles to members.

Khoros provides a set of default roles. You can modify these roles (although we don’t recommend it) and create your own roles. You can also create a relationship between your community ranks and roles so that members get new roles and receive additional permissions as they advance through the ranks.

Each role has a setting for each permission. When you define a role, you can set some permissions directly and leave the default settings for the rest.

After you define your roles, you can set up the ranks in your community to assign (and remove) roles when members change ranks. The higher the rank, the more access it’s likely to grant the member.

In addition to controlling member access within a community, you can also use roles to gather metrics on community usage or to establish criteria for gaining a rank.

Although it’s more common to use a rank to grant a role, you can also use a role to assign users a rank. Some communities use this technique, for example, to assign a special rank to community moderators by using a role as the criteria for granting a rank.

Similarly, you may want to create a role specifically for your employees. They might have the same permission settings as other community members, but you can use a special employee role as the requirement for a corresponding rank to identify them as employees to the rest of the community.

Note: Groups use the default community roles as well as a set of roles specific to groups. Learn more in Group roles and permissions.

Related topics:

• Create a role
• Default Community roles
• Permission descriptions
• Add members to roles
• Best practices: roles and permissions

You can also receive self-paced training on roles and permissions in our Build Khoros Communities course.