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title: Create a new role
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Info:** Let's create a **Content editor** user role with specific permissions for a user that works on managing website content, and has access to Xperience's administration UI.

1. Before you create a new user role in Kentico, put together a list of activities users with this role should be able to perform. Consider the applications they need and the actions they must perform in each application.
2. Go to the **Role management** application.
3. Add a **New role** and fill in the following information:
   1. **Display name**: e.g., _Content Editor,_
   2. **Code name**: e.g., _ContentEditor,_
   3. **Description**: e.g., _“A role with access to website channels (e.g. Business Banking channel) and Content hub. Responsible for creating, managing, updating, and curating the website’s content.”_.
4. **Save** to create the user role.
5. On the left, switch to the **Permissions** tab.
6. For each application that the user needs to work with, select **Add permission set** and choose the rights for the application and wokspace. For example:

   1. **Content hub**:
      1. _View_, _Create_, _Update_, _Delete,_
      2. **In** worskpace: **Business Banking**
   2. **Business Banking** channel: _Access channel_
7. **Save** your changes.
8. Go to the **Assigned users** tab and select the existing users you want to add to this user role. If you need to add a new user, use the **Users** application.
9. **Save** the changes.
10. In this example, the _Content Editor_ user role should look like the following:

![Content editor role settings](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/guides/create-new-role/content-editor-role-settings.png "Content editor role settings")