Adding new user roles

Add a new user role with specified permissions so that you can control which actions a user with that role can perform in the Pentaho Data Mastering.

You must have admin privileges to add user roles.

Perform the following steps to add a user role:

1. On the left navigation menu, click Master Data. The Master Data page opens.

2. In the Users card, click Roles.

   The Roles page opens.

3. Click Add Role.

4. Click Create New.

   The Create Role page opens.

5. Specify the following information:

Field	Description
Name*	Name of the new user role. Tip: In your identity management tool, the user role name is appended with the prefix, MDM. For example, the admin role is MDM_Admin in the Keycloak IAM server.
Description	Description of the user role.
PERMISSIONS*	Permissions that you want to assign to the user role. CAUTION: By default, all permissions are listed in the PERMISSIONS box. You must remove permissions that you do not want to assign to the user role.

* Mandatory Field

1. Click Create Role to create the new role.

   A confirmation message appears in the top-right corner of the page.

   Tip: To add multiple user roles at one time, see Adding user roles in bulk.