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Managing user roles as an administrator in Amazon Q Developer in chat applications

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Administrators can unmap user roles from channel members' chat client IDs from the User permissions page in the Amazon Q Developer console. Administrators can also require user roles by enabling a user role requirement in the User permissions page. This requirement can be applied to all workspaces and channels or to individual channel configurations. For more information on user role requirements, see User role requirement.

Note

Administrators can't map user roles. Only channel members have this ability.

Unmapping a user role in Amazon Q Developer in chat applications

You can unmap a user role from a chat client ID. When you unmap a user role, it will no longer appear your Mapped roles table.

Note

Unmapping user roles doesn't impact the ability to use Amazon Q Developer in the Amazon Q Developer console or in other places where Amazon Q Developer is available.

To unmap a user role
  1. Open the Amazon Q Developer console.

  2. Under Account settings, choose User permissions.

  3. In Mapped roles, select the roles you want to unmap.

  4. Choose Unmap.

Enabling a user role requirement in Amazon Q Developer in chat applications

You can enable a user role requirement to force users to apply a user role before running commands in Microsoft Teams and Slack.

To enable a user role requirement
  1. Open the Amazon Q Developer console.

  2. Under Account settings, choose User permissions.

  3. In User role requirement, enable a user role requirement.

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