Roles and permissions

This section covers how to use roles and permissions to control access, organize your community, and keep it safe. It also covers the default setup that every new community starts with.

📄️ Overview

Control what members can see and do in your community.

📄️ Manage roles

Create, edit, and assign roles to organize permissions for your community members.

📄️ Manage access rules

Control which roles and members can see and use specific channels and channel groups.

📄️ Permission syncing

Apply access rules to multiple channels at once using channel group inheritance.

📄️ Permission calculation

How Root combines roles, access rules, and overlays to determine what a member can do.

📄️ Permission reference

List of all permissions available in Root, organized by category.