> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.bdb.ai/security-users-and-roles-5/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-5/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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***Default user creation***
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***Accessing Platform using a Default User Account***
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All new users created via the Security module are added to a default (viewer) role. The default user role restricts all new users from accessing any Platform modules until they are added to some user group.&#x20;

## Creating a Default 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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## Accessing Platform using a Default User Credentials

* 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, Report, and Data Catalog*** modules.

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* The newly created user who does not belong to any group is added to the default user group entitled ***Viewer Role under the User Groups***.

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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 credited options for the shared documents.*   &#x20;
* *All the newly created users will get a notification message "**Documents are not available in this folder**" until they have some shared documents accessible to them.*
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