Composite Roles

2 min

In some scenarios, you may need to define a Composite Role—a role whose membership is based on a combination of other existing roles. This allows you to build logical groupings of users, such as combining multiple departments or locations into a single, manageable role for notifications, approvals, or access control.

Steps

Open Activate Studio

Create a new Role within the Roles section.

Add a Members parameter with a Type of Xml.

Open the Members parameter.

Use the interface to add Roles and logical operators (and, or, not) to define the membership logic.

Use Cases

A customer requires a role that includes all users who are members of both the Auckland Location and the IT Department—for example, to notify them of system outages.

A customer wants a role that includes all users who belong to Auckland or Wellington locations.

Example

In this example, a site uses subsidiary and department-based roles. A Composite Role is created to include all members of a specific Subsidiary Role who belong to any of the listed Locations.