Create a custom role for your application in App Engine Studio (AES).

Before you begin

Role required: admin, security admin, or delegated_developer (with the Security Management permission)
Note: If you are an admin, be sure to elevate your role.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > App Engine > App Engine Studio.
  2. From the My Apps page, open your application.
  3. In your application, next to Security, select the add icon (Add icon).
  4. Select Build a new role and then select Continue.
    Figure 1. Option to build a new role
    Option to build a new role
  5. Enter a name and description for your role, and then select Continue.
    Tip: For consistency with existing role names, enter a role name that is all lower-case and uses underscores instead of spaces. For example, for an office art requester role, you would enter office_art_requester.
  6. For each table in your application, select one or more access controls for your role.
    Create
    Users with the role can create new records on the data table.
    Read
    Users with the role can read the data that is stored in the table.
    Write
    Users with the role can update existing records in the table.
    Delete
    Users with the role can delete table records.
  7. Select the Experience tab, and then select the experiences that users with the role can access.
  8. Select Continue, and then select Done on the summary screen.