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Assign a default Cost Transparency role to users with multiple roles (Planning and CT roles)

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We recently added the Planning module to our instance and are in the process of rolling it out to users.  We also have access-restricted menu items on our Cost Transparency (CT) landing page so we have users with a Planning role as well as a CT role.  It seems like the default role is the one that appears first alphabetically (based on my impersonation of multiple users).  I had to log in as each finance team member to set their default role because they couldn't access the restricted CT reports.  Their default role was set to their Planning role (which doesn't exist in CT) so they weren't able to view the restricted CT reports.  We have over 100 new Planning users who are about to start using Apptio so we were asked to impersonate each of them to make sure their role is set correctly and they will not have issues viewing restricted reports.  After impersonating about 20 users, it appears that the default role is the first one listed alphabetically.  If the Admins could set a default CT role in the Access Administration console, it would be helpful to Apptio Admins. 

Idea priority Medium