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title: Custom Roles
slug: manage/custom-roles
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createdAt: 2025-03-11T06:56:11.036Z
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Custom Roles let you maintain a digital-signage system with minutely tailored user roles and responsibilities across many locations. See [Users and Roles](docId:3hGSzMbBIb90RCac6FBN5) for information on how to access them in BrightSign Control, and [Roles](docId\:D1q2MGHt3KsaHZvB-lkCD) for information on how to access them in BrightSign Author.

# Examples

## Accountants

The user in charge of accounts payable needs to keep track of the invoices that are generated by BrightSign Cloud. Since they are not otherwise involved in the digital signage network, create a Custom Role without copying permissions from a System Role, so all permissions are set to off. When the role has been created, turn on only the necessary **Player Subscription** permissions.

## Creators

The default **Creators** role can be subdivided if, as your organization grows larger, the responsibilities for content creation is divided. The easiest way to deal with slight variations in System Roles is to copy the permissions from the base **Creators** role and then divide permissions for **Live** **Text** **Feeds**, **Dynamic Playlist**, **Presentation** and other **Content** operations.