> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.bdb.ai/security-users-and-roles-4/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.bdb.ai/security-users-and-roles-4/various-user-roles/viewer-role.md).

# Viewer Role

It is the default user role for all the new users until they are added to any user groups with required permissions to use platform modules.

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*Check out the walk-through on how a Viewer role gets created.*
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***Viewer Role***
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All the new users created via the ***Security*** module are added to a default role (the viewer role). The default user role restricts all new users from accessing any of the Platform modules until they are attached to some user group.&#x20;

Let us see how this happens for a new user:

* Select the ***User*** option from the ***New*** Context menu.

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* Access the ***New User*** page opens.
* Provide the required information to create a new user.
* Click the ***Create*** option.

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* *Skip the **Add to Group** part for this user.*

* *Provide the **Custom Fields** details for the new user (If only marked as mandatory).*
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* A confirmation message appears.

* The user gets created and added to the list of users (By default the newly created user will appear at the top of the list).

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* Navigate to the ***Sign In*** page of the BDB platform.
* Use the new user’s credentials to access the Platform.
* Click the ***Sign In*** option.

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* Once you Sign in to the platform homepage open the ***Apps*** menu.
* As you can see the newly created user who is not part of any user groups does not have access permissions for the platform modules other than view permission for the ***Home*** and ***Story*** modules.

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*<mark style="color:green;">Please Note:</mark> The following behavior can be observed by using a Viewer Role/ Default User.*
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* The newly created user who is not added to any group gets added to the default user group titled ***Viewer Role***.

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* *The user in the **Viewer Role**/ **Default User Role** can have only view permission for the documents shared with him. They can't see any of the credited options for the shared document to modify it.*   &#x20;
* *All the newly created users will get a notification message "**Documents are not available in this folder**" until they have some shared documents available to them.*
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