In Gemstracker, every user is assigned to one group. One group is assigned one role. One role has a set of privileges.

There are a few predefined roles: Super, admin, staff, researcher, guest, nologin, physisian, respondent, security.
Also a set of predefined groups is predefined: Super administrators, local admins, staff and respondents.

The basic level to change rights is at the roles level.

To create additional groups with customized privileges you first need to:

1. create a new role
2. create a group with this role
3. make sure the group that can create accounts has access to this new role (needs to inherit from the new role you created)

• Go to Roles under Setup - Access*
• Go to new
• Enter role name, description and select parent roles from which this role will inherit rights
• Select the privileges this role will additionally have
• inherited privileges are shown at the end of the list
• Press 'Save'

* You can only see this tab if you have the right to access it

• Go to Groups under Setup - Access*
• Go to new
• Enter groupname
• Select the role this group will have
• Press 'Save'

* You can only see this tab if you have the right to access it