Use an existing role for your application

Use a previously created role for your application in App Engine Studio (AES).

Before you begin

Your application must contain either data or experiences in order to add an existing role. For more information about adding data or experiences to your application, see the following guidance:

• Create a data model for your application
• Add an application experience

Role required: admin, sn_app_eng_studio.user, or delegated_developer

About this task

App Engine Studio includes default roles that you can use for your application. For more information on the default roles, see Base system roles.

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > App Engine > App Engine Studio.

2. From the My Apps page, open your application.

3. In your application, next to Security, select the add icon (

1. Select Use an existing role, and then select Continue.

   Important: If your application doesn't contain data or experiences, the Use an existing role option will appear, but you cannot select it.

1. Select the search field and then select a role from the list.

2. Select Edit.

   A new tab opens to set access controls for the existing role.

3. In the Experience section, select the experiences that users with the role can access.

4. In the Data section, set access controls for each available table.

   • Create

     Users with the role can create new records on the data table.

   • Read

     Users with the role can read the data that is stored in the table.

   • Write

     Users with the role can update existing records in the table.

   • Delete

     Users with the role can delete table records.

5. Select Save.

Parent Topic:Add application security