There are two types of ‘role’ on our platform - ‘Primary roles’ and ‘Custom user roles’. Primary roles are baked into Control (admin, moderator, etc) and can’t be changed. On the flip side, you’ve got the power to determine your own set of custom user roles and define their permissions and behaviour.
Here’s a list of some gnarly stuff can you do with Custom User Roles:
- Provide normal registered users access to certain sections of Control.
- Define how long certain members can edit their posts.
- Restrict access to certain categories within your community.
- Use them as filters to find users in the user overview.
- Use them as rules to determine when to award a rank.
How To Add a Custom User Role
- Go to Control → Settings → User Roles → Add Role
- Give your role a Title, optionally select whether users with this role should have only 60 minutes or unlimited time to edit their posts, and optionally choose which sections of Control users with this role should have access to.
- Press ‘Save changes’, and you’re done.
How To Enable A Custom User Role For A Particular Member
- Go to Control → Users → User overview (find a member through the search/filters).
- Under the Usergroups → Custom Roles section, enable one or more custom roles on the member’s profile.
- Press ‘Apply changes’ (it’s tucked away at the bottom of the Usergroups section) and you’re done.
You can edit any aspect of a custom user role, at any time. Just click ‘Edit’ for the custom user role you’d like to change (you can also find a ‘Delete’ button within the edit screen).