Directus Basics Part 3: User Roles & Permissions

In part three of our Directus Basics series, we're covering access control — one of the most important (and most overlooked) parts of setting up a production-ready Directus project.

You'll learn how to: ✅ Understand the difference between permissions, policies, and roles ✅ Fix the classic "No App Access" error new users run into ✅ Set up Public policy access for data anyone should be able to see ✅ Build a custom Access Policy and Role from scratch (DataEntry example) ✅ Grant Read access to related collections — and why relational fields silently disappear without it ✅ Set up field-level custom permissions so users can edit only specific fields

This series follows a real Directus instance from the ground up. If you haven't watched Part 1 (setup) or Part 2 (relationships) yet, start there — this one builds directly on what we've already covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAk3X4y8v1U