Understanding Roles and Permissions

To give users the necessary permissions to perform their intended function within Liferay DXP, you must first associate the set of permissions with a role.

Roles and Scope

Using a Message Boards Admin role and a user Jane Slaughter as an example, here are the steps you might follow:

1. Determine the function needed: Manage Message Boards in Liferay DXP.
2. Determine the scope: Throughout the Virtual Instance (globally).
3. Create the properly scoped role, assigning the permissions that power the function: Message Boards Admin (Regular Role).
4. Create the user collection: a User Group called Message Boards Administrators.
5. Assign the role to the user collection: Message Boards Administrators → Message Boards Admin Role.
6. Assign users to the user collection: Jane Slaughter → Message Boards Administrators.