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How To Edit/Delete a Role and its Permissions

Note: All pages below are subject to having relevant Roles and Permissions.

System Administrators can use this function to:

See also How to Export & Import Roles, How to Assign Roles and Permissions, How to get Started with Roles and Permissions

Edit Permissions Within a Role

From the left Menu, go to Config > Setup > Roles & Permissions.

Pathway

To Edit, select the Role from the dropdown menu and then click on the Edit button.

Select the Role
Module and Permissions

Select the Module you wish to Edit the Permissions for from the Module dropdown.

For Permissions relating to Staff, Students, Groups and Others choose Framework from the Module dropdown.

For Permissions relating to Overview, Insight, Widgets and the Dashboards choose Profile from the Module dropdown.

Edit the Role details and its Permissions using the tick boxes Access, New, Edit, Delete and Save when completed click on the Save button.

Note:  Ticking the boxes in the Header Row will assign Permissions to the whole module. Removing this tick removes all Permissions for that module.

Delete a Role

To Delete, select the Role from the dropdown menu and then click on the Delete button.

Delete a role

Note: A Role can only be Deleted if there are no Users associated with it. If this is the case, remove all associated Users first. A Confirmation message will be given select Cancel or Proceed.

Add/Remove Users to and from a Role

Select the Role from the dropdown menu and then click on the Edit button.

Edit a Role

Scroll down to the Allocated Users section.

To Add a New User select Add New User button.

This will open the Select User pop-up, click to select the User name or type the Name in the User field, add the Start Date and End Date. These are the Dates the User will have access to that Role. Click Ok to Save.

To Remove an User click on the Dustbin icon to the left of the Name, a Confirmation message will be given, select Cancel or Proceed.

Note: Leaving the End Date blank will mean the User will have access to the Role indefinitely (until an End Date is defined).

Edit User Access to a Role

The Start and End Dates for when the User can access the Role, can be Edited by clicking on the Pencil icon to the right of the Name, which will open the Select User pop-up.

Click Ok to Save.

History and Audit Report

To see a History of changes made for a Role with the ability to Export click on the History button top right.

History
View History

To Export to Excel click on the Export button bottom right.

The file will download as an excel worksheet to your local computer.

Excel Example

Alternatively, click on the Audit Report button from the Roles and Permissions page to see changes made to all User Accounts and Roles.

The Audit Report defaults to list changes over the last 7 days. In here, a user can Filter/Reset by Column header, Sort by Column, Search by keyword, Clear Column Filters, and Export as Excel.

Click on Filter in the top left hand corner to see the Audit Report Filters popup where you can: View By [By User Accounts to filter on User Accounts, and By Roles to filter on Roles and Modules], and amend Date Range. Click Save after any changes.

Applied Filters will appear in green in the top left hand corner next to the Date Range.

Updated on May 12, 2023

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