ROLES ANALYSIS

If you are working your way through the requirements analyses, the topic of roles has already come up. Given the audience, process, task, content, and feature analysis outcomes, you might already know what your roles need to be. During a roles analysis, you are taking the information you have so far and selecting a strategy for how you want to define your roles.

In a roles analysis, the objectives are to:

• Identify user roles (if you haven't already done so)
• Determine how you want to bundle permissions into roles
• Determine what permissions each role will need

Your decisions during this analysis can influence:

• Why you need specific content types
• Which modules you will need in order to support your role definitions
• How you choose to show blocks on your site