Is there a way to add role members to another role? In other words, I create role X. Instead of adding a bunch of members individually to role X, I want to add everyone who is already in roles A, B, C. Is there a way to do this?
This functionality is not available Out-Of-The-Box, but I expect this could probably be accomplished with some code development. I've never heard this request previously and I am curious about the use case. It might be worth submitting as an Idea.
Thanks, Tom. Good to know. The use case is that in order to track employee engagement, we have set up employee roles according to their team. We need each team to have its own role so that we can track that teams engagement separately. I use Reporting/Content/Interactions for this.
However, I don't want to rely on those team-based roles to set permissions, just because its tedious. I'd rather take all of those team-based roles, and plop them into one "Forum Response" role, and then I can use that ONE Forum Response role to set permissions for moderating, replying, etc. Does that make sense? It's just an efficiency thing.
For now, we don't have that many employees who have an engagement KPI, so I just threw all of their names into the "Forum Response" role one-by-one. As we grow, though, it would be helpful if could just add members to the "Forum Response" role in groups, by relying on their team roles.
Make sense? Am I missing another easy option here?
Are you using SSO in your community? If so, you can (probably) pass role values for employees that way.
We have a catch-all employee role and I don't have that automatically broken down, but we do have a large network of partners, so I have a catch-all "partner" role, and then "partner type A," "partner type B," etc roles, so that I can grab the whole or the parts for permissions as needed.
Agreed, this could be accomplished with an automation. You could create an automation that handles GroupRoleMember events for a given configurable role for members and adds them to a set of configurable roles.
