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Chapter 17 Managing Users, Groups, Permissions, and Roles
3Toclonetheselectedrole,chooseAdministration>Role>Clone.
Aduplicateoftheroleisaddedtothelistofroles.ThenameisCopy of
<rolename>.
Editing Roles
Whenyoueditarole,youhavetheoptiontochangeanyoralloftheprivilegesselected
forthatrole.Whencompleted,thesenewprivilegesareappliedtoanyuserorgroup
assignedtheeditedrole.
To edit a permissions role
1FromtheVIClient,clicktheAdminbuttoninthenavigationbar.Click
theRoles
tab.
2Toselecttheroletoedit,clicktheobjectinthelistofRoles.
3 ChooseAdministration>Role>EditRole.
4 Selecttheprivilegesyouwantthenewroletohave.Clicktheplus(+)signsto
expandthelists,asneeded.
5ClickOKtocompletetheprocess.
Removing Roles
Whenyouremovearole,ifitisnotassignedtoanyusersorgroups,thedefinitionis
removedfromthelistofpossibleroles.Whenyouremovearolethatisassignedtoa
userorgroupyoucanremoveallassignmentsorreplacethemwithanassignmentto
another
role.
To remove an existing role
1FromtheVIClient,clicktheAdminbuttoninthenavigationbar.ClicktheRoles
tab.
2Toselecttheroletoremove,clicktheobjectinthelistofroles.
YoucanselectmultiplerolesusingtheCtrlorShiftkeys.
3 ChooseAdministration>Role>Remove.
CAUTIONBesurethatyouunderstandhowuserswillbeaffectedbeforeremovingall
assignmentsorreplacingthem.