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7.3. Creating a Role for Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11

Goal

Create a Vendor role to allow some - but not all - users to perform specific tasks.

Prerequisite knowledge

Section 7.1, “Concept: Users, Roles, and Permissions”

Steps

  1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to People > Roles (admin/people/roles).

  2. You will find default roles Anonymous user, Authenticated user, and Administrator already present.

    Roles page

  3. Click Add Role to add a custom role.

  4. Type Vendor in the Role name field. Click Save.

    adding vendor as a role

  5. You will see the message "Role Vendor has been added." displayed at the top of the page.

    vendor role added success message

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Additional resources

Drupal.org community documentation page "User Roles"

Attributions

Adapted and edited by Jack Probst, Boris Doesborg, and Joe Shindelar from "User Roles", copyright 2000-2024 by the individual contributors to the Drupal Community Documentation

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