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title: "User roles (SM201005)"
description: "A role is a set of access rights to specific modules or other system entities."
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  en: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/access-management/user-security/user-security-windows/user-roles-sm201005/index.md
lastmod: 2026-02-19
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# User roles (SM201005)

Last modified February 19, 2026

> A role is a set of access rights to specific modules or other system entities.


This topic provides information about the elements in this window in Visma Net, such as fields, field values, buttons, and check boxes.

A **role** is a set of access rights to specific modules or other system entities.

Some users are assigned only one role, while others are assigned multiple roles in
accordance with different sets of employee responsibilities.
For more information
about roles, see: [About role-based access](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/access-management/user-security/about-role-based-access/index.md).

Make sure you create an administrative role with full access to the system before you start managing user access within your company. This way, you ensure a smooth process for everyone and minimise the risk of accidentally locking users out of the system.

## The top part

This area contains the summary elements of the role you are creating or viewing.

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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Role name</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">The unique identifier of the role.
Type the name of the new role,
or select a role from the list of available roles.</td>
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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Role description</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">A detailed description of the role.</td>
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## The Membership tab

On this tab, you can view the list of users to whom the role selected in the top part is assigned. For a customised role you have created in Visma Net you can update the users in the list.

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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Username</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">The login name of the user to whom this role is assigned.</td>
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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Display name</td>
<td class="vismanet-table__cell">The combination of the <strong>First name</strong> and <strong>Last name</strong> in the <a href="/visma-net-erp/help/access-management/user-security/user-security-windows/users-sm201010/index.md">Users (SM201010)</a> window of the user selected in the <strong>User name</strong> column.</td>
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<td class="vismanet-table__cell">Any comment that was provided for the selected user in the <a href="/visma-net-erp/help/access-management/user-security/user-security-windows/users-sm201010/index.md">Users (SM201010)</a> window.</td>
</tr>

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