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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Force administrators to manually elevate

A property is available to force all users with the administrator role to manually select the role that they want to elevate to.

Before you begin

Role required: security_admin

Procedure

  1. Log in as admin.

  2. Elevate your role to security_admin.

  3. Navigate to sys_properties.list.

  4. Search for and select the glide.security.strict_elevate_privilege property.

  5. Set the Value field to true and click Submit.

Result

When the user logs in, they are presented with a dialog window to select the role to which they can elevate.

Parent Topic:Elevated privilege roles

Related topics

Security_admin role

Elevate to a privileged role