Aurora: Look up a member's roles and permissions
Sometimes you may want to look up the permissions and roles of an individual community member to see what they have access to do. When you look up a member’s current permissions, you may also want to assign them to more roles (or unassign them)—you can perform these actions on the Member Permissions page.
Note: You cannot change the individual permissions of a member. Instead, you must add them to roles that have the permissions you want that member to have. If you want a member to have unique permissions, create a role just for that member and adjust the permissions as desired (though this is not recommended).
To look up a member’s roles and permissions at the community level:
Note: If you want to look up a member’s permissions at a category, board, or group level, you must first select that place in the place picker on the Roles and Permissions page.
- Go to Settings > Users > Roles and Permissions.
- In the left column, click Member Permissions Lookup.
- In the field, enter the username of the member whose permissions you want to view.
- On the Member Permissions page scoped to the community level, view the following information:
- Member Information: The member’s rank, username, email address, and how long ago they joined the community. You can also click Profile to go to their member profile for more information about their contributions to the community. (See About the member Profile page.)
- Community Roles: The roles currently assigned to this member. The Role In column shows at which level the member was assigned that role. For example, if it was assigned at the community level, Community appears; if it was assigned at a lower level, the name of that place appears.
- Group Roles: The Group roles currently assigned to this member. The Role In column indicates which Group this role applies to.
- Community Permissions: All the permissions assigned to this member via their roles. To the right of each permission, the Grant or Deny status is displayed along with the level and role where that permission was or was not granted. Hover your cursor over the named role to see its full name and at what level it was assigned to the member. You cannot alter these permissions here, as you cannot assign permissions individually. Permissions are all granted or denied via roles.
Note: When you have chosen a lower-level place, instead of Community Roles, you’ll see Category Roles (this section also contains roles for lower-level places within the category), Knowledge Base Roles, Blog Roles, Ideas Roles, or Forum Roles. Also at lower levels, you’ll see Category Permissions, Group Permissions, Knowledge Base Permissions, Blog Permissions, Ideas permissions, or Forum Permissions. At the board level (Knowledge Base, Blog, Ideas, or Forum), the Group Roles section is not available. - (Optional) In the Community Roles area, click Assign Community Roles to assign more roles to the member at the community level. On the Assign Community Roles window, enter roles in the Community roles field, and then click Assign Roles.
Note: When you have chosen a lower-level place, any roles you assign are applied only at that level. - (Optional) If you’re scoped to a Group level, you can also click Assign Group Roles to assign more Group roles to the member. On the Assign Group Roles window, enter roles in the Group roles field, and then click Assign Roles.
- (Optional) If you want to remove a role in the Community Roles or Group Roles sections, hover your cursor over the role until the Remove button appears, and then click it.
Note: If you want to view a different member’s permissions at any time on this page, at the top of the page, Enter a username in the field to switch to that member.
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