# Hippo:admin role readonly

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippo-admin-role-readonly/1585>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [November 20, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippo-admin-role-readonly/1585 "2019-11-20T14:05:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pedro\_gutierrez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/pedro_gutierrez/32/379_2.png) [@pedro\_gutierrez](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/pedro_gutierrez)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippo-admin-role-readonly/1585/1 "2019-11-20T14:05:09Z")

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Hi,

I was playing with the roles and privileges available in hippo and I can’t seem to find a way to give a user readonly access to the CMS console. Is that possible?

It seems that to access the console this can only happen if the hippo:admin role is involved and I can’t seem to be able to create a custom role for that with readonly access.

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**Author:** ![lucaswiersma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@lucaswiersma](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/lucaswiersma)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippo-admin-role-readonly/1585/2 "2019-11-20T14:31:31Z")

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If I recall correctly from the presentations at connect this functionality will be made available in Bloomreach 14. I don’t know if it can be done in the currently available versions.

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**Author:** ![bcanvural](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/bcanvural/32/235_2.png) [@bcanvural](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/bcanvural)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippo-admin-role-readonly/1585/3 "2019-11-20T14:47:52Z")

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Why not use the repository servlet? (/cms/repository) it’s readonly [https://documentation.bloomreach.com/library/administration/servlets-in-use.html](https://documentation.bloomreach.com/library/administration/servlets-in-use.html)

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**Author:** ![pedro\_gutierrez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/pedro_gutierrez/32/379_2.png) [@pedro\_gutierrez](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/pedro_gutierrez)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippo-admin-role-readonly/1585/4 "2019-11-20T15:03:59Z")

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Thank you both!

That is correct, the repository servlet offers the functionality that was needed in this case.