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  1. Log in to the Management Console by entering your user name and password.
  2. Click Configure from the main menu to access the Configure menu.
  3. In the Configure section, click Users and Roles to access the User Management page.
  4. In the User Management section, click on the Users link.
  5. The Users menu facilitates the Add New User, Bulk Import Users, Change Password, Assign Roles, View Roles, and Manage User Profile features.
  6. Click on the Add New Role link.
  7. In the Add Role page, enter the role details.


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    The Domain label specifies the user-store where the role information is saved. The domain is set to PRIMARY by default in the single-user-store option, whereas in the multiple-user-store, all the user-stores are populated in the domain drop-down list allowing you to choose the required user-store.
  8. There are two options available with the Add Role page, namely Role Only and Role with Permissions options. Click the Finish button

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    to save the role with no

    permission whereas selecting the “Next” button

    permissions. Clicking the Next button directs you to the

    “Role

    Role with

    Permissions” option

    Permissions option.

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    The permission model of WSO2 Identity Server is hierarchical. Permissions can be assigned to a role in a fine-grained or a coarse-grained manner. For example, you can either select the whole class of permissions, such as
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    by checking the corresponding box, or you can expand that class and select one or several items.


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  9. “Permission List” page The Permission List page shows two methods, namely “Save Save Role Only” Onlyand “Attaching Attaching Users With the Role” Role.
  10. By clicking the ‘Finish’ button Click the Finish button after marking the required permissions in the permission list tree propagates . This enables you to save the role with the specified permissions whereas selecting the “Next” . Clicking the “Nextbutton directs you to the “Attaching Attaching Users With the Role” optionRole option.
  11. Select the users to be assigned to the role. You can conduct a search by name, or view all users by entering "*" into the search field.
  12. Required user list could be populated through the “Search” button by providing “*” for all users or user name for specific user.
  13. User List page provides Click one-by-one, The User List page enables you to Select all on this page, Unselect all on this page, Select all from page 1, and Unselect all from page 1 methods to select . You may also select the individual check boxes to choose the required users.
  14. Clicking on “Finish” button assigns Click on the Finish button to assign the selected users to the role.
  15. A new role is created with the specified user list. The role name is displayed in the "Roles" list list.

From here, you can rename roles, assign new permissions and users, and delete a role.

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Instructions on how to create and add a new user role in the WSO2 Identity Server.