---
title: "Role"
description: "a named set of grants; platform originals a tenant copies"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/role
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Role

a named set of grants; platform originals a tenant copies

[figure: Role is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name and its owner |
| store | postgres |
| family | people |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `grants` | [Grant](/concepts/grant) | yes |  |
| `original` | `id` | no | where a copy came from |
| `plain_words` | `text` | yes | what the role lets a person do, shown where a role is given |
| `owner` | `id` | no | the tenant that copied the role; absent on a platform original, which every tenant has |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Role directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.