User Roles — Proposed Guide

Planned API — Reference Only

User Roles: Roles group permitted capabilities for a type of organizational responsibility. A finance reviewer role and an organization administrator role…

Overview

Roles group permitted capabilities for a type of organizational responsibility. A finance reviewer role and an organization administrator role need not share authority over reimbursements.

Key concepts

Distinguish role definition from user assignment, and scope both to an organization. A role name is a label, not an authorization decision.

Implementation considerations

Avoid using a single administrator flag throughout client code. Future services should evaluate allowed actions on the target record.

Illustrative data model

This local fixture shows a possible representation for the concepts above. It is not an endpoint response, production configuration or a claim that the described capability is implemented.

JSON fixture

Fictional concept fixture

{
  "reference_only": true,
  "topic": "User Roles",
  "user_id": "usr_example_123",
  "role_id": "role_example_123",
  "organization_id": "org_example_123"
}

Design review checklist

Document which organization owns the user roles representation and which actor may view or change it.
Test the boundaries of user id, role id, organization id using synthetic values, including missing or inconsistent references.
Before future implementation, obtain an approved contract and review failure behavior. This documentation does not authorize production activation.

Proposed data types

Illustrative field dictionary
Name	Type	Description
user_id	string	Stable fictional user reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.
role_id	string	Stable fictional role reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.
organization_id	string	Stable fictional organization reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.

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Users & Organizations

User Permissions