Explain Inherited Roles

Question

The inherited roles are the roles which appear as shown in the image:

So my questions are:

1. What are inherited roles? Please explain.
2. What are the use-cases in which roles would appear in this section for a User?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can (for example) be member of a UserGroup which is assigned a role. This would not be editable on the user profile, but an effective role that is good to see if it's there. The other "independent" roles (e.g. through an organization) should also appear there.

Answer 2

Inherited roles can be configured in: Control Panel > Roles > Select a particular role > Assign Members > Select the Sites tab

Inherited Roles

Inherited roles really not existed in the liferay but we can see these roles in the user my account page roles section .these roles specially appear when the user can be member of user group which is assigned a role.

We can say if any roles which associates with User Group and the user is member of respective user group then role can be visible as part of inherited roles section.

Simply we can say that user directly not associated with role instead of that User Group will be associated with role and the user will be member of User Group then the roles are become as inherited role to users who are belong to User Group.