Quick role changes from the grid or drawer
Inline role change: In the grid, the Roles column offers a control to change the user's roles. Select a new role (or multiple roles where supported). The change is sent to the API and the row updates optimistically. So you change a user's role without opening the edit drawer.
Via Edit drawer: You can also change roles in the User Edit drawer (roles field), then Save. Same result: roles updated, grid refreshed.
Quick role changes from the list or from the drawer. No code, no full-page edit.
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In practice
User & Role Management — inline role dropdown, or via Edit drawer. On this page, Quick role changes from the grid or drawer is covered in detail: what it looks like in the admin, the exact controls it exposes, and how it behaves when you use it day to day. Because quick role changes from the grid or drawer is part of User & Role Manager — a redesigned users grid, role management, application passwords, and inline role changes — the settings you touch here interact with the rest of the feature; when in doubt, open the feature overview and follow the docs in order.
Before bulk role changes
Role changes take effect immediately and apply to every selected user, so a moment of review beats a cleanup later: confirm the target role's capabilities, keep at least one administrator untouched, and remember that demoting users does not log them out — their sessions pick up the new capabilities on the next request.
For agencies handing sites to clients, the safer pattern is creating the client role first and then moving users into it, rather than editing capabilities on a shared role.
See also
Need a hand? Contact support or head back to the User & Role Manager guide.