About Roles, Menus, and Users

Roles are used to define the set of menus and menu options that are accessible by a given user. There are some pre-defined roles that are available, and you can define roles specific to your institution.

You can create roles specifically for your institution and assign users to those roles. The role is added to a defined set of menus and menu options. If a user's responsibilities change, new roles can be assigned to them and roles they no longer use can be removed.

Setting up roles and users:

1. Add new roles

2. Add the roles to menus and menu options

3. Assigning roles to users for the first time

Master roles and Specific roles

MCSL has created a Master role and Baseline roles for all FAST Applications.

The Master role is used by the administrator to access all menus, menu items, layout, and administration functions.

The Baseline roles are used for specific functionality on reporting and entry pages.

These roles cannot be deleted.  A unique ID is used for each role in the FAST applications.

Related topics

• Overview of User / Role Assignment

• Assigning additional roles to users

• Setting user/role accounts to expire on a specific date