Your user account is associated with one or more roles. A role defines a set of permissions. Permissions are coarse-grained access controls that enable your account to work with an entire class of objects, use a specific set of screens in the UI and/or perform restricted administrative tasks. To create user groups, for example, your account must belong to a role that has the “Manage Users” permission.

When you log on to CentraSite using CentraSite Control, the roles associated with your user account determine which screens and controls are visible in the user interface. If you build client programs using the CentraSite API, the roles associated with the user account that the program uses to log on to CentraSite determine which types of objects it can manipulate and which methods or operations it is allowed to perform.

To determine the roles to which your user account belongs, see Viewing/Editing Information About Your User Account.