Adding Roles

to add a role in the main navigation, click account management > roles click + add the create new role window is displayed in the name field, enter a name for the new role in the tag field, select a predefined tag from the drop down list tags are used for access control by assigning a tag to this role you enable users with this role to access all system object to which the tag is assigned if you would like to create a new tag, see docid\ ypm9tw81ap6nq8stkv4rd under permissions , for object type select the permission level that will be assigned to this role you can apply the same selection on an entire category (e g resources, channels, sources, etc ) by selecting it at the category level, which is highlighted in gray the options are read – allows users with this role to view objects of this type but not edit their configuration write – allows users with this role to edit the configuration of objects of this type notify – allows users with this role to receive notifications/alerts regarding this object type in the users field, select from the drop down list the users you would like to assign the role to in the groups field, select from the drop down list the groups you would like to assign the role to in the api keys field, select one or more api keys that the permissions for this role should apply to (see docid\ y5vwl7q34graoprjlhzui for more detail on how these settings affect api requests) note that you can edit the role to add new api keys, or select the role when you create a new api key click save the new role is added to the list of roles