Creating your own roles
On Settings → Roles & permissions, New role creates a role of your own: blank, from a template, or as a copy of an existing role; then you tick, module by module, what it grants. You can only put a permission into a role if you hold it yourself.
- Click New role.
- Under Start from, choose Blank role, an item under Templates, or a role under Duplicate existing.
- Enter the role's Name, then tick the allowed actions per module in the permissions table. All and None select a whole group at once.
- Save the role.
Permissions you do not hold yourself are greyed out: you cannot grant them, so you cannot create a role stronger than your own.
Roles marked System are read-only, but can be copied as a starting point. The Default role checkbox sets which role new members get. A role can only be deleted once it has no members; reassign them first.
When a module is switched off for the team, its permissions do not apply even if the role includes them; they apply again once the module is switched back on.