# Roles and Access Control

Information on managing roles and access control (ACL) rights in Designer.

Designer builds on ServiceNow's access control model; this gives ServiceNow admins the ability to assign specific access rights via roles to different users and groups.

## Roles & Groups

Designer has the following roles:

* **Designer Admin**: Can assign roles, create, read and delete diagrams.
* **Designer User**: Can create, read and delete diagrams.
* **Designer Reader**: Can only read diagrams.
* **Designer Commit**: Commits changes to relationships and elements only.

![Designer Roles.png](/files/xrYv0EN1DmdaGrMlsX4S)

Designer roles overview & interdependencies

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**Assign Users to the Groups**

Add users to the pre-defined Designer Groups, to quickly grant access to different functionalities.
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The abilities of Designer roles and groups are summarized in the visual below:

![designer-config-install2.png](/files/RzecJdoU6tksBpCbPT76)

The following diagram provides a more comprehensive representation of the abilities of Designer roles and groups:

![designer-config-install3.png](/files/eExLrnlExIj0tRY9LlcH)

ACL CRUD Matrix

## Contributor & Consumer Matrix

The following matrix shows the access rights of the different roles & groups in conjunction with the Contributor & Consumer feature per Diagram.

![Designer-Contributor-Consumer-Matrix-1920x716.png](/files/5UBphjd6gq4iEOWFGpDV)

Contributor & Consumer Matrix


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