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<h1>Creating Roles<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-roles" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Roles are assigned to users so that you can define a group of users and set permission (or other) rules.</p>
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<li>To create a new role, click &#8220;New&#8221; on the top toolbar and select &#8220;Role&#8221;</li>
<li>Give the Role name, use descriptive names here like - &#8220;Contact Manager&#8221;</li>
<li>Set the module, (use the standard; if you want create a new module, go ahead!)</li>
<li>Click on the green &#8220;Save&#8221; button</li>
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<p>Your new Roles is created! To check, click on the &#8220;Search&#8221; button on the top toolbar and select &#8220;Role&#8221;
Click on &#8220;Search&#8221; and see that your new Role is added to the list of already existing roles:</p>
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Pre-defined roles. There are 3 basic roles that are pre-defined in the system. It is suggested,
you leave them as it is!</p>
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<li>Administrator: Role given to the application builder / maintainer</li>
<li>All: All logged in users have the role &#8220;All&#8221;</li>
<li>Guest: Users who are not yet logged in.</li>
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