# How to get Roles in Ignition Designer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-get-roles-in-ignition-designer/8342>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 22, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-get-roles-in-ignition-designer/8342 "2014-04-22T05:26:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@Niks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Niks)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-get-roles-in-ignition-designer/8342/1 "2014-04-22T05:26:35Z")

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Hi All,

I have one numeric text field, I need to enable/disable that numeric text field based on ROLE logged in.

I dont need to enbale/disable numeric text field based in User logged in.

I have not found Role of users logged in in the Ignition Designer.

Please let me know how to get Roles logged in so I can use in the application.

Thanks In advance

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-get-roles-in-ignition-designer/8342/2 "2014-04-22T10:02:31Z")

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EDIT: I scratched my first line of reasoning. I’m flawed this morning… 😆

The [System]Client/User/RolesDataSet and [System]Client/User/RolesString should have what you need. The only caveat I have is that they don’t get populated in the designer. Only in a running project.

While I develop, I use a label pointing to RolesString to assist in testing.

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**Author:** ![Niks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@Niks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Niks)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-get-roles-in-ignition-designer/8342/3 "2014-04-22T12:08:57Z")

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Yup it works,

I had confusion because it don’t get populated in the designer and these [System]Client tags are not convert it into SQL tags. ☹

Anyway thank you Jordan 😃 .