Changing your instance user role

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title: Changing your instance user role
description: Change your PDI user role to either App Engine Studio Creator or Admin for different views and levels of access.
locale: en-US
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topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Personal developer instance guide, Learning about developing on the ServiceNow AI Platform, Classic app development, Building applications]
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# Changing your instance user role

Change your PDI user role to either App Engine Studio Creator or Admin for different views and levels of access.

## Before you begin

Role required: none

## About this task

Depending on your learning or testing needs, you may need to change the user role for your PDI.

## Procedure

1.  To change your user role:

    1.  Open the **Account** menu to access the **My Instance** section.

    2.  Click the **Change User Role** instance action.

    3.  In the **Your instance actions** dialog, select **App Engine Studio Creator** or **Admin**.

        \[Omitted image "change-role-pdi.png"\] Alt text: Option to change user role to admin

    4.  Click the **Change User Role** button.

    5.  A message indicates when your change user role request is completed successfully.

2.  To see the change in your user role:

    1.  Close any open PDI browser tabs.

    2.  Relaunch your PDI by clicking the **Start building** button in the **Account** menu.


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