| Users with essentially read-only access to browse data.
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{{Note | Ensure central authority has '''exclusive''' control over user accounts and roles, Data Entry Form templates, the Data Inventory Manager and Auxiliary data.}}
Access to IMSMA functions are handled by the use of permissions. Permissions allow a user to view information related to a function, or view and change information related to a function. Roles are named groups of permissions that can be assigned to users. IMSMA includes several predefined roles that have one or more permissions assigned to them. The predefined IMSMA roles are Operations, System Administrator, Data Entry, and Guest.