Overview

Each user has an assigned role in Marketscape CRM. The role, in turn, determines what features the user has access to as they use the CRM. This article is an overview of how roles work in Marketscape CRM.

Default roles are set up as part of setting up business lines. (The default roles are visible in the image below.) These roles include default permissions that are already set up for different user personas. Unless you have specific permission requirements that you already know that you need to set up, we strongly encourage you to use the defaults early on and make changes as you and your company adapt to using Marketscape CRM and uncover changes that align with your strategies.

 In this article

• Summary of Roles
• Overview of working with roles

Summary of Roles

The following includes everything you need to know about roles.

• Each role is a collection of permissions for different functions and features in Marketscape CRM
• As an account admin, you can create as many roles as you want depending on the features you want to provide to different groups of users
• You assign a role to a user when you create their account.
• Every user with the same role assigned will have the same access to features
• If you make changes to the permissions in a specific role, all users with that role will gain or lose access to functions or features together.

Example - A contact is the record in the database for a specific person a sales rep would talk to at an account. A user may be able to do none, some, or all of the following:

• Create a contact
• Edit a contact
• View a contact
• Delete a contact

There are more possible actions, but this makes the point. Depending upon what you decide a user needs to do, you would set up the role to either allow access to any of the listed actions above, or not provide the permission.

Working with Roles

Navigating to the Roles Settings

• Click on the "Settings" button in the left navigation
• Click on the "Role Management" link under "Territory Management."

Adding/Deleting Roles

• To add a role, click on the "New Role" button at the top of the page
• To delete a role, click on the "Delete" link to the left of the role name you wish to delete

Editing Roles

When you click on the "Edit" link to the left of a role name in the Role Management table, the settings in the image below open up for the selected role.

Since we are suggesting that you use the default settings in the default roles, we will not describe all of the settings here. 

Instead, let's move on and set up users.

Additional Resources

• Role Management and Configuration
• Role Management - Permissions Details

Next Step

Success! - If you have reached this point, you are ready to move on to Step 3 User Management.