Definition

A role is a set of permissions for actions available within the PIM (example: create a product, delete a product, view the attributes grid...) or with the API (example: create/update categories, list attributes,...).

A role can be assigned to one or several users. You can imagine having a role named Administrator that will grant more access than another role named Manager that will itself grant more access than a third role named Intern, for example.

One user can have one or several roles. In the case a user has several user roles, the permissions given by each of its roles are cumulated.

Example

Mary is an intern. We do not want her to create new products. So we assigned the Intern user role to her. This role does not grant the right to create new products as you can see in the screenshot below.

So easy!