{"id":2477,"date":"2023-05-16T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/streamlining-user-permissions-with-roles\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:48:14","slug":"setting-user-permissions-with-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/setting-user-permissions-with-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting User Permissions with Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finding ways to enhance customer experience is always a driving force at Simply Voting, and because of this we are pleased to announce our new <strong>Roles<\/strong> feature for streamlining user permissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accounts on Simply Voting often have multiple organizational users, since managing elections sometimes isn\u2019t just a one person job, or other stakeholders might be involved in helping keep elections transparent and auditable. If you are still sharing a single user login among organizational staff \u2013 we would encourage you to review best practices and create individual users (<a href=\"https:\/\/help.simplyvoting.com\/docs\/managing-users-and-usergroups?highlight=user%20roles#understanding-user-roles\">click here to learn more<\/a>)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To facilitate managing multiple users, we\u2019ve launched roles. Roles provide a set of permissions which can be applied to multiple users, and to get you started you will find several default roles reflecting popular groups of user permissions.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/roles_en1-768x497-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/roles_en1-768x497-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/roles_en1-768x497-1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers also have the option to create their own more nuanced roles (<a href=\"https:\/\/help.simplyvoting.com\/docs\/managing-users-and-usergroups?highlight=user%20roles#creating-roles\">click here to learn more<\/a>). For instance, a \u201c<em>scrutineer<\/em>\u201d role might have permissions related to <em>read-only access<\/em> to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Electors<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Results<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reports<\/span> sections, but <em>no access<\/em> to any other sections within an election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any edits to the defined permissions for custom roles like this, such as say updating the <em>scrutineer <\/em>role to also include <em>full access<\/em> to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Account Log<\/span> section, would then update the permissions of all users assigned to this role \u2013 saving you the headache of updating each user one by one and ensuring everything is the same across the board for the group of users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope this feature enhancement helps keep your user management simple! Don\u2019t hesitate to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/support\/\">contact Support<\/a><\/strong> if you have any issues, questions, or concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding ways to enhance customer experience is always a driving force at Simply Voting, and because of this we are pleased to announce our new Roles feature for streamlining user permissions. Accounts on Simply Voting often have multiple organizational users, since managing elections sometimes isn\u2019t just a one person job, or other stakeholders might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voting-system"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}