Chapter 4. Role Portlet
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## Chapter 4. Role Portlet

### Thomas Heute

`<theute@jboss.org>`

## 4.1. Introduction

The role portlet is dedicated to create and edit roles. A role will be used to grant different permission level to different portlets. A user can have several roles (for example he can be an administrator of a category of forum but only a reader on another category)

## 4.2. Functionalities

### 4.2.1. Create a role

To create a new role, you just need to define a short name that will be used for reference, and a display name for displaying to the user, for example `admin` would be a good name for the display name `Administrators`, changing the display name will not affect the security rules

### 4.2.2. Edit a role

While editing a role, you just need to pick an exising role then change the display name, that's the only thing you can change.

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