Clarify Manageable Roles - #11753
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| The effects of changes to user roles are not immediate. This means that your app might show outdated pages or incorrect data. For more information, please refer documentation about [persistent sessions](/refguide/clustered-mendix-runtime/#sessions-are-always-persistent). | ||
| The effects of changes to user roles are not immediately applied to end-users who are signed in to the app. End-users need to sign out and sign in again to pick up their new roles. This means that your app can show the wrong pages or data. For more information, refer to the documentation on [persistent sessions](/refguide/clustered-mendix-runtime/#sessions-are-always-persistent). |
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End-users need to sign out and sign in again to pick up their new roles.
Or wait 30s (i.e. theSessionValidationTimeout). After 30s the session will be revalidated by fetching it from the database, which will have the updated roles.
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I think we should be cautious in the wording. There are all kinds of places where the logged in users roles are cached and used to make decisions about for example what kind of interface elements to show or not in the web client.
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There is confusion about the way that manageable roles work, and there is also a major confusing change in the UX.
This PR aims to clarify how manageable roles work.