Role help: show users descriptions of their roles
Last updated on
30 April 2025
The Role Help module displays a help page that is tailored to a user, showing information for each role they have assigned to them. This is visible to anonymous users only if a description is set for that role.
Users with the with the 'administer access control' permission can set descriptions text for roles. This is set on a role's admin settings page, except for the anonymous user and authenticated user roles whose help text is set on the role help admin page. You can also set an input format for all role help texts here.
You can
- set a description for each role on its settings page.
- set descriptions for the anonymous and authenticated roles on the role help settings page.
- set the input format for all role help text on the role help settings page.
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