# A question about security through relation columns? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 8:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/a-question-about-security-through-relation-columns/63079 "2023-06-23T08:06:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/a-question-about-security-through-relation-columns/63079/19 "2023-06-23T14:13:06Z")
> [@ToOFa\_Apps](#): > > Not sure about that? I use access levels, haven’t used the roles column before (i think it does the same thing though?) > If it’s like access levels then it prolly wouldn’t work because access levels use conditional visibilities to hide components or list or screens etc, No, that’s not how Roles work. Roles are probably a good option for your use case if you will have multiple admins. What you would do is assign yourself the admin role (the name of the role doesn’t matter), along with any other user that needs that role. Then instead of having a separate row owner column for every admin, you just have a single one that contains the word “admin” (or whatever name you’ve used). Then every user that has been assigned that role will have access. The below might help understand a bit more: > [@Row owners and roles in the same time?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-and-roles-in-the-same-time/45691/5): > > No, the users being managed wouldn’t have any role at all. They would just have their own email address as an owner row, which means they would only see their own data. Only the Managers would be given the Manager role, and as a Manager would be set as a Row Owner for every user, they would have access to all data. This might be easier to explain with a picture. Consider the following example: In the example above, the first 3 users are Managers. Each… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/a-question-about-security-through-relation-columns/63079)._