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title: Assigning Users and Bpanda Roles
description: >-
  Where in the Process Space each Bpanda role is assigned — in the Manage Users
  tab, on the process page and in the release process.
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Bpanda roles provide a user with certain functions, either directly or through membership in a group; if several roles are assigned to a user, they can use all the functions they offer. Which role carries which authorizations is described in [Roles and Authorizations](/en/getting-started/roles-and-authorizations).

## Prerequisites [#prerequisites]

You are a **BPM Manager** in the Process Space — or the **Process Owner** of the process whose roles you are assigning.

The users have been invited to the Process Space; you can only invite users that already exist in the account management. See [Manage Account](/en/settings/manage-account) and [Inviting Users to the Process Space](/en/settings/manage-process-space/inviting-users).

## How to Proceed [#how-to-proceed]

1. You assign roles without a process reference on the **Manage Process Space** page in the **Manage Users** tab: the **BPM Managers** and the **Risk Managers** of the Process Space. The **Designer** role is not assigned here, but in the account management, see [Defining Designers and BPM Managers](/en/settings/manage-account/process-designers-and-bpm-managers).

   See [Appointing a Further BPM Manager](/en/settings/manage-process-space/appointing-further-bpm-manager) and [Appointing Risk Managers](/en/settings/manage-process-space/appointing-risk-managers).
2. You assign roles with a process reference on the process page under ⋮ **Settings and Information** › **Roles and Authorizations**: **Process Owners**, **Process Contributors**, **Process Participants** and **Locked Users**. Among other things, these assignments mean that the processes are displayed to the users under **Relevant Processes**.

   Bpanda defines the first **Process Owner** itself: whoever imports a process or submits a draft as a process for the first time thereby becomes the **Process Owner**. You can edit several processes at once via [Manage Processes](/en/processes/manage-processes).

   The same page carries the process-specific competences, see [Creating and Assigning Competences](/en/settings/manage-process-space/create-and-assign-competences).
3. You assign the roles of a review in the release process. Whoever creates the review (**Process Owner** or **BPM Manager**) determines its **Review Owners** and **Participants**. As long as the review is running, the Review Owners and BPM Managers can change both lists via **Manage Review**. All users of the Process Space are available for selection, except users with read-only rights and users who are blocked for the process.

   See [Releasing and Publishing Processes](/en/processes/release-process).