After reading this article you’ll know:
The kinds of application development roles
What role-based application development access is
How to assign roles and permissions for certain users
Providing access to certain users to build, configure, update, and maintain applications is based on three roles: citizen developer, business technologist, and low-code developer. In this article, we will break down these roles explaining what they are capable of doing and what level of access or limitations you can set for these roles in your application providing a clearer, more secure, and efficient development process, facilitating better collaboration and productivity.
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Application development roles explained
Currently, three application development roles can be assigned and used on the Betty Blocks platform:
Citizen developer is responsible for configuring, updating, and maintaining the application. This person usually is a business user, working on the platform every now and then.
Business technologist is a more experienced builder who can build more complex applications. This persona also has a business background, making them the ideal practitioner to build business applications.
Low-code developer has the highest level of expertise and is responsible for customizing and supporting other builders. From now on, everyone who was assigned to the builder role will be a low-code developer.
Roles and permissions management
In order to view and manage roles and permissions in your organization, go to My Betty Blocks, choose your organization, and click on Roles & Permissions.
Here you’ll see both organization roles and application development roles.
Learn more information about the permissions and what they do in this article.
As for business technologist and citizen developer roles, they are provided permissions manually by an organization’s admin. You can enable each permission separately or use the checkbox on top to allow or cancel all permissions in the list (see the image below).
Note: Press User management button in the top right corner to manage users and their organization roles (Admin or Member by default). More info is available in this article.
Keep in mind that all permissions set here will be applied to all applications in your organization. Nevertheless, you can assign these roles in each of your applications separately. To do this, choose your application from your current organization, press … button, and proceed to User management overview.
As an organization admin, you can assign roles and permissions in My Betty Blocks. By default, all existing builders for all applications have been transformed to low-code developers and will have access to all permissions.
Invite new users to your application by pressing the Invite users button in the top right corner. A new dialog window will open and you will be able to type in a new user’s email address and assign the role to them. This ensures the builder will land on the platform in the correct role and will directly have access to what they need to use. Click Send invite when you’re done adding new users.
Note: As you may have noticed, the User role is still present and available when assigning roles. It is used to allow application end users to interact with the front end of an application (in combination with the Betty Blocks authentication profile). More about this here.