Grant and Revoke Permissions for Application Roles

You can grant individual permissions to a user-defined application role or revoke permissions that are no longer required. For example, you might want to provide an application role that enables users to export their workbooks to a PDF by granting the permission Export workbook to document.

  1. Click Console.
  2. Click Roles and Permissions.
  3. Click Application Roles.
  4. Click the name of a user-defined application role.
    To filter the list by name, enter all or part of a name in the Search filter and press enter. If you enter part of the name use * as the wild card. The search is case-insensitive, and searches both name and display name. For example, enter *admin* to search for any user that includes the letters admin.
  5. Click Permissions to see the permissions granted to the user-defined application role.
  6. To grant permissions to a user-defined application role.
    1. Click Add Permissions.

      Add Permissions button

    2. Select the permission you want, and click Add.

      Select and add permission

  7. To revoke permissions from the application role.
    1. Navigate to the permission you want to revoke.
    2. Click the Remove Permission icon.
    3. To confirm, click Remove.

    Remove Permission icon