# User Roles

## Overview

The User Role fieldtype gives your users a way to pick one or more User Roles to attach to the current entry. What you do with that relationship is up to you, but most likely you'll be either listing users or combining it with the [User:Is](/tags/user-is.md) tag to protect content or areas of the frontend.

## Data Storage

The User Role fieldtype stores the `handle` of a single group as a string, or an array of handles if `max_items` is greater than 1.

## Templating

The User Role fieldtype uses [augmentation](/augmentation.md) to return the `title` and `handle` of each Role. You can use pass these values into the `{{ user:is }}` tag to protect content.

The following example assumes `max_items` has been set to `1`.

::tabs

::tab antlers
```antlers
{{ user:is :role="role_field:handle" }}
  You are a {{ role_field:title }}. Nice!
{{ /user:is }}
```

::tab blade
```blade
{{-- Using Statamic Tags --}}
<statamic:user:is
	:role="$role_field->handle"
>
	You are a {{ $role_field->title }}. Nice!
</statamic:user:is>

{{-- Using Fluent Tags --}}
@if(Statamic::tag('user:is')->role($role_field->handle)->fetch())
	You are a {{ $role_field->title }}. Nice!
@endif
```
::