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About Users, Groups, and Roles



Roles control what users can do. For example, only a user with the Administrator role can log into the Site Administrator program. Only users with the Map Author role can access resources in Autodesk MapGuide Studio. Everyone can use the MapGuide Viewer to view maps, but this is not considered a separate role.

You might assign a small team of users to groups and roles in the following way:

In this example, each of the six users is a member of at least one group and three of them are members of at least two groups. There are two roles: Map Author and Administrator. The Map Author role is assigned to the Mapping group rather than to the individual users. However, the Administrator role is assigned to a single user.

To read more about users, groups, and roles, see the Getting Started guide.