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title: Example - UI personalization
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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.
>
> - [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).

This is an example of using the UI personalization application to restrict users from accessing parts of the user interface. In this example, you will create a new user role, called **Forum moderators**, and allow the role to access only the relevant interface.

When a forum moderator logs in to the administration interface, they will see only the **Forums** application. Inside the application, they will only have permission to view existing forum groups and manage forums and threads inside the groups.

> **Note:** This example does not show how to configure permissions for the different actions that users can perform with forums. The example deals only with visibility of user interface.

## Preparation

Before diving into the UI configuration, create the objects that you'll be working with.

1. Open the **Forums** application and create some forum groups and forums, or use the **Corporate sample site**.
2. Open the **Roles** application and create a new role called **Forum moderators**.
3. Open the **Users** application and create a new user called **Alice**.
4. Assign Alice to your site, and then to the **Forum moderators** role.
5. Open the **Permissions** application, select your site and the **Forum moderators** role, and then select the **Read** and **Modify** permissions.

## Configuring UI personalization

In this section, you will configure the system to display only relevant parts of the user interface to the user Alice.

1. Open the **UI personalization** application.
2. In the **Site** field, select your site. In the **Role** field, select **Forum moderators**.
3. In the **Module** field, select **Forums**.

   ![In the UI personalization application, select the Forum moderators role and Forums module](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/example-ui-personalization/UI_personalization_selection.png "In the UI personalization application, select the Forum moderators role and Forums module")
4. Select check boxes as shown in the following image (click to enlarge).
   - Note that you must go up the hierarchy of UI elements and select all parent elements.

     ![Select these check-boxes to make only the Forums application visible for the given role](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/example-ui-personalization/UI_element_tree_forums.png "Select these check-boxes to make only the Forums application visible for the given role")

Now you can log out of the administration interface and log in as Alice. In, the application list, you can see that Alice can see only the Forums application.

![Only the Forums application is visible](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k82/example-ui-personalization/UI_personalization_applist.png "Only the Forums application is visible")

Browse the Forums application to verify that Alice can see only the parts of the interface that you selected in UI personalization.