Automatically assign a role to a user

tiepolo71 · 2025-02-20T01:03:56.201Z

I want to automatically assign a role to a user when signing up.

I created a User Roles data type and I have 2 roles in that data type. One is “User,” the other is “Admin.”

Within the User data type, I have a User Role field that is mapped to the User Role data type.

I then added an action to when they sign up to Make Changes to the Current User and assign the user role to “User”. However, this is not working. What am I doing wrong? I’m new to Bubble, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. See my attached screenshots.

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AndyMountHood · 2025-02-20T06:10:45.077Z

Usually, we take a simpler approach in Bubble. For example, we might make an Option Set called User Role with two values: User and Admin. When a user signs up, we would just assign that user’s role to User. No need for searches at that stage.

I made it even simpler: In the User data type, I include a Role field, but I leave it blank. If the person is an Admin, I can change it to Admin later, otherwise I don’t put anything there. In my workflows, I only let them do admin tasks if the user’s Role is Admin.

emmanueldigitals66 · 2025-02-20T06:51:47.393Z

Oops welcome onboarding this is an easier step to follow, create on option set with called user role with value Admin and User.
The create a data type User_role field under User data type and Link it to the option set user_role.
You see a drop down and check user
This make every user signing to your app to be automatically assigned to user data rike in your app.
I hope this sounds clear enough

tiepolo71 · 2025-02-20T07:22:15.544Z

Thank you. That makes sense.

The reason I was doing it this way is because I was thinking about adding other types of roles later on that have other permissions. For instance, an editor or an author. I was hoping to make a UI that would allow an admin to change permissions of each role on a webpage instead of directly altering the data in the app data.

I was hoping to learn how to do that, but maybe I need to take baby steps and use your suggestion for now.