Roles (PDM)

A role is a predefined profile that can be assigned to users, or roles in those DBMS that support this concept. Roles are reverse engineered in your model and you can also create user-defined roles.

Roles may have:

• Creating a Role
  You can create a role in any of the following ways:
• Role Properties
  You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a role property sheet, double-click its Browser entry in the Roles folder. The following sections detail the property sheet tabs that contain the properties most commonly entered for roles.
• Assigning a User to a Role
  Once you have created a role, you can assign users to it.