Zephyr comes with 5 several default roles (Test Manager, Test Lead, Tester, Defect User, Dashboard User, Project Admin) but then allows you to create (or modify or delete) additional roles and decide which applications those roles can have access to on their account. Only one dashboard role will be created and you cannot create other dashboard roles. The default roles are not editable except for the Test Lead and Tester project apps.
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When selecting the permissions for the role, the Test Repository for the Project Apps and Global Repository Apps have a read-only permission. The read-only permission will allow the user to only view the items in the test repository/global test repository but will not allow the user to perform certain actions items (Create/Edit/Delete). When you select the permissions for a project application, read-only will be automatically selected.
- Read-only users cannot utilize use any of the grid view buttons (Add/Import/Clone/Delete/Edit/Map/Reorder Testcases).
- Read-only users cannot utilize use any of the folder operations (Add/Edit/Delete/Sync/Import).
- Read-only users can view different test case versions but cannot edit or perform any actions with the test case versions.
- Read-only users can utilize the export function for the folders, the test cases in the grid view and the test cases in the detail view for the test repository/global test repository.
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