We are excited to release a mighty enhancement to the Customizable User Roles feature: you can now assign multiple roles to a single user directly from the dashboard. This simplifies permission management and scaling your team's access with enterprise-grade flexibility.

The Challenge: Scaling Role Management

Since launching Customizable User Roles, we've heard feedback from large teams managing numerous brands, regions, or environments. A common challenge was managing users who needed combined permissions.

For example, to grant a developer access to both the EMEA and NA indexes, you had to create a specific "Dev EMEA + NA" role. For complex teams, this led to a long, hard-to-maintain list of "combination" roles (e.g., "Merchandiser US+EU", "Merchandiser B2B+B2C").

The Solution: Multiple Roles for Simple, Granular Control

With this update, you can now assign the existing "Dev EMEA" role and the "Dev NA" role to the same user. This approach provides powerful benefits:

• Reduce Admin Overhead: You don't need to create and manage dozens of redundant "combination" roles. Simply assign the building blocks you've already created.
• Scale with Flexibility: Easily manage permissions as your team grows and responsibilities change. Need to give a B2C merchandiser temporary access to the B2B site? Just add the "B2B Merchandiser" role and remove it when the project is done.
• Smart, Additive Permissions: Access is combined in the most permissive way. If one role grants View access and another grants Edit access for the same feature, the user will automatically get Edit access.

How to Get Started

Users with the Manage users permission can select and assign multiple roles to a single user directly from the dashboard. Navigate to the User Management page by clicking on your name in the bottom left corner, and then, Team Members. Click on the current role assigned to a user and select multiple roles in the dropdown.

If you have any questions or feedback on the update or the Constructor dashboard in general, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.