Enhanced Roles

Feature Name	Enhanced Roles
Feature ID	CrestApps.OrchardCore.Roles

Provides a way to enhance the role management experience.

RolePickerPart

The screencast below enables Enhanced Roles, adds the Role Picker part to the Page content type, and then picks roles with the Role Picker while creating a page.

This adds a role-picker to any content type. The editor uses an enhanced dropdown (bootstrap-select) that lets editors search roles, and, when multiple selection is enabled, select or deselect all roles at once for a friendlier experience. You can use the Orchard Core content types UI to add it to any content type, or you can do it via code using a migration. For example:

internal sealed class CustomContentTypeMigrations : DataMigration
{
    private readonly IContentDefinitionManager _contentDefinitionManager;

    public CustomContentTypeMigrations(IContentDefinitionManager contentDefinitionManager)
    {
        _contentDefinitionManager = contentDefinitionManager;
    }

    public async Task<int> CreateAsync()
    {
        await _contentDefinitionManager.AlterTypeDefinitionAsync("CustomContentType", type => type
            .WithPart<RolePickerPart>(part => part
                .WithDisplayName("Roles")
                .WithSettings(new RolePickerPartSettings()
                {
                    AllowSelectMultiple = true,
                    Required = true,
                    Hint = "Select one or more roles",
                    ExcludedRoles = ["Authenticated", "Anonymous"],
                })
            )
        );

        return 1;
    }
}

Finally, register this migration:

public sealed class Startup : StartupBase
{
    public override void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddDataMigration<CustomContentTypeMigrations>();
    }
}