According to the Glide Builder there is a warning that a user can have only 9 roles. I am assuming my Role Array can only be labeled from 1-9. I currently have 25 ‘roles’ [Role 1, Role 2…Role 25 built in Google Sheets] but only 10 are active. All 10 show up in the Users profile and seem to work in regards to data access restrictions. I am about to add another dozen or so and I wondered if this is a hard limit or a soft limit?
I am using roles as a means of implementing a 5-level deep hierarchy of personal where at the root level they have access to all the data and at the leaf level only their own data. I am ‘flattening’ the tree and using Roles to control data access. I use filters to them show the right data at the right level with access to only data they should be able to view. An end-user (with correct roles) can view data ‘up and down’ the tree depending on access.
So far it works for a 3 level hierarchy but I am moving to 5 levels for the next test which adds another dozen named roles. It works for 10, will it work for 25 (or 30)?
Thanks for the reply, Any thoughts on how to model/implement within Glide secure access (only download the rows you have access to) to data within a standard personnel hierarchy?
Example: CEO has 4 direct reports, VP of Sales has 5 direct reports, etc. CEO can see everything, VP of Sales can only sees sales data and not engineering data.
A ‘manager’ can only see their data and anyone who reports into them. APAC-Sales could not see EMEA-Sales nor US-Sales. Central-US can not see Eastern-US but can see all their direct reports, etc.
This example would have ‘29 roles’ in a flattened hierarchy.
CEO
VP Engineering
VP Sales
Director, Inside Sales
Director of Field Engineering
EMEA-Sales
APAC-Sales
US-Sales
Eastern US
NorthEast, NY/NJ, MidAtlantic, Carolinas,FLGA
Central US
GreatLakes, Praire, TOLA, Mo/Tn
Western US
Pacific Northwest, NorCal, SoCal, Rockies, Desert
VP Marketing
CFO
Controller
VP Support
Mark - I noticed the role ‘warning’ has changed. It now says “Users with roles assigned will count as Private Users” instead of “Each user can have up to 9 roles”
