Content Management Roles are for groups of users who want to share a single login name and password to share the work on a certain organizational task.
Generally, a
workflow notification email is sent to a Role mailbox, which can be forwarded to all the Users who are sharing that task at the moment.
A Role in a Content Management environment is a specisl use of the term Role from Sociology.
"A role (sometimes spelled as rôle) or social role (in sociology) is a set of connected behaviours, rights and obligations as conceptualised by actors in a social situation. It is mostly defined as an expected behaviour in a given individual social status and social position.."
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