Manage roles

In Inspire, you use uses roles to manage access to content, set permissions to perform actions on the content, and grant privileges to use specific features. As an administrator, you can manage roles from the Security menu.

Based on a particular role's activity, you can define specific permissions and privileges for specific content. You can add members to the role or remove members as needed. Role-based access makes it easier to manage permissions and privileges for a group of users.

Inspire provides the following predefined roles:

System administrators

• Members of this role are Vasont employees who setup, configure, and support your system.
• You cannot remove this role

Application administrators

• Members of this role are also known as Client Administrators. This is an administrator in your organization who can setup, configure, and support your system.
• You cannot remove this role

Content authors

• Members of this role are typically writers developing content for your documentation. You can modify or remove this role to follow your documentation development processes.

Content editors

• Members of this role are typically editors reviewing or approving content. You can modify or remove this role to follow your documentation development processes.

If you create roles, you might need to grant module access to the new role and set any permissions for that role on that module.