Managing user roles

In BMC Release Process Management version 4.6, you can create new user roles and change the existing user roles to manage the application access permissions. Roles are not assigned directly to individual users. Instead, you can assign a list of different roles to a group of users, and then you can associate this group with an application and its environments inside a team.

After you install or upgrade to BMC Release Process Management version 4.6 or later, you have the following default roles with appropriate permissions available:

• Coordinator/ Coordinator Admin
• Deployer/ Deployer Admin
• Executor/ Executor Admin
• Requestor/ Requestor Admin

• Site Admin

  Site Admin is a special user role that grants full access to all BMC Release Process Management components.

• User/ User Admin

Access permissions for user roles are granted according to the main tabs of BMC Release Process Management and the appropriate applications assigned to users via teams.

You can perform the following actions to manage user roles:

To create a role

1. Go to System > Roles
2. Click Create Role at the right side of your screen
3. In Name, enter the name for the role
4. (Optional) In Description, enter a short description for the role
5. In the Access Permissions list, click the appropriate item to expand the related permissions list:

   1. Main Tabs

      Note

       Main Tabs control the user access to all following permission list items.

   2. Dashboard Permissions
   3. Plans Permission
   4. Requests Permissions
   5. Reports Permissions
   6. Applications Permissions
   7. Environment Permissions
   8. System Permissions
6. Ensure that appropriate access permissions are selected for each of Access Permissions items.
7. Click Create to save your changes
   
   

To edit a role

1. Go to System > Roles
2. In the Actions column, click Edit next to that role that you want to modify
3. Make your changes and click Update when completed

To make a role inactive

1. Go to System > Roles

2. In the Actions column, click Make Inactivenext to the appropriate role

   Note

   You can make inactive only roles that are not used by any group

To make a role active

1. Go to System > Roles.

2. In the Inactive roles list, from the Actions column, click Make Active next to the appropriate role.

To delete a role

1. Go to System > Roles.
2. Make the appropriate role inactive.

3. In the Inactive roles list, from the Actions column, click Delete next to the appropriate role.

Related topics

Administering users, roles, and access permissions

Managing access permissions

User roles considerations after upgrading the product