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Advanced User Access

This page allows you to control user access, giving your users permission to access and administer specific customers or locations, as well as the entire account.

Accessing

To access the page, you'll need to first go to the admin page, choose users and then select the user you want to adjust.

On the user page, you'll see the Edit User Access link. Click this.

Changing Permissions

There are three distinct types of permission.

  • Restrict - This is the default permission, preventing the user from seeing any measurements.
  • View - This allows a user to see measurements, but they are not able to make any changes to the system.
  • Admin - This allows a user to administer the system

You can apply these permissions to…

  • All - Every customer and location. Note that having the 'Admin' permission here will also allow the user to manage your users, create reports and perform other System Administrator tasks. Use this option sparingly.
  • A Customer - Applies the permission to all of the locations under the customer. Note that this can be overridden by giving a location a more specific permission.
  • A Location - Applies the permission to the location only - none of the other customer locations are effected.

Inheritance

Having no permission indicates that it should use the permissions set on any parent items.

For example, if you have no permission on a location but you have one on the customer, then all of the locations will inherit their permissions from the customer.

The initial permission is 'Restrict', meaning that the user can not see the customer or location in question. If all of the checkboxes are blank, the user will not have any access.

Examples

A System Administrator

To create a new system administrator user, simply assign the 'Admin' permission to 'All'.

A Customer

To restrict a user so that they can only see the items under a single customer, you can give them the 'View' permission under the customer. Make sure that all other checkboxes are blank.

A Site Supervisor

If you have a site supervisor that doesn't need to see the alerts and measurements from other sites, you can assign the 'View' permission directly to the location.

admin/advanced_user_access.txt · Last modified: 2015/07/14 02:02 by sharding