Assigning Permissions to a Role

Goal¶

Change the permissions for the Vendor role so that users can create, edit, and delete Recipe and Vendor content, format the content, and contact each other.

Prerequisite knowledge¶

• Concept: Users, Roles, and Permissions

Site prerequisites¶

The Vendor role must exist on your site. See Creating a Role.

Steps¶

1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to People > Roles (admin/people/roles). The Roles page appears.
2. Click Edit permissions in the dropdown for the Vendor role. The Edit role page appears where you can see all the available actions for the website such as, for example, Post comments or Administer blocks. The available permissions depend on the modules that are installed in the site. Note: Some permissions may have security implications. Be cautious while assigning permissions to roles.

3. Check the boxes for the following permissions, listed by module:

   Module	Permission
   Contact	Use users' personal contact forms
   Filter	Use the Restricted HTML text format
   Node	Recipe: Create new content
   Node	Recipe: Edit own content
   Node	Recipe: Delete own content
   Node	Vendor: Edit own content

   

4. Click Save permissions. You will get a message saying your changes have been saved.

Expand your understanding¶

• Log in as one of the new users you created in Creating a User Account. Verify whether you have the correct permissions.
• Changing a User's Roles

Related concepts¶

Concept: The User 1 Account

Videos¶

Additional resources¶

Drupal.org community documentation page "Managing Users"

Attributions

Adapted and edited by Boris Doesborg, Brian Emery, and Jojy Alphonso at Red Crackle, and Joe Shindelar at Drupalize.Me, from "User Roles", copyright 2000-2026 by the individual contributors to the Drupal Community Documentation.