In addition to the General Settings, Roles offer a layer of security by:

• granting or restricting access to certain folders in the Report Tree, by way of the Folder and FolderCollection classes — this is similar to the Folders section of the Role's Admin Console settings
• granting or restricting access to certain Data Objects, by way of the DataObject and DataObjectCollection classes — this is similar to the Objects section of the Role's Admin Console settings
• further restricting access to certain rows in Data Objects, by way of the DataObjectRow and DataObjectRowCollection classes — this is similar to the Filters section of the Role's Admin Console settings