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title: Business Portal user roles
description: Different roles allow customers to create and edit cases and manage users from the Business portal.
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# Business Portal user roles

Different roles allow customers to create and edit cases and manage users from the Business portal.

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User role

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What this user can do on the Business Portal

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Customer\[sn\_customerservice.customer\]

</td><td>

-   Create a case for this user's account.
-   View a list of cases created by this user.
-   Edit cases created by this user.
-   Search for information.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Customer case manager \[sn\_customerservice.customer\_case\_manager\]

</td><td>

-   Create a case for this user's account and for child accounts.
-   View a list of cases created by this user and view cases for child accounts.
-   Edit cases created by this user and edit cases for child accounts.
-   Search for information.
-   Create a case on behalf of another contact in this account.
-   View a list of cases belonging to this account.
-   Edit cases belonging to the account.

 **Note:** The customer case manager role is not automatically added to the **sn\_customerservice.contact\_role\_assignment** system property. To expose this role to customer and partner administrators, navigate to **Customer Service** &gt; **Administration** &gt; **Properties** and add it to this property.

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Customer administrator \[sn\_customerservice.customer\_admin\]

</td><td>

-   Create a case for this user's account.
-   Create a case on behalf of another contact for this account.
-   View a list of cases belonging to this account.
-   Edit cases belonging to this account.
-   Search for information.
-   Manage users for this account.

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Partner\[sn\_customerservice.partner\]

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-   Create a case for this user's account.
-   Create a case on behalf of customer accounts.
-   View a list of cases belonging to this user.
-   Edit cases belonging to this user.
-   Search for information.

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Partner administrator \[sn\_customerservice.partner\_admin\]

</td><td>

-   Create a case for this user's account.
-   Create a case on behalf of customer accounts.
-   View a list of cases belonging to this account and to customer accounts.
-   Edit cases belonging to this account and to customer accounts.
-   Manage users for this account and for customer accounts.

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