Controlling user access

Purpose

You can protect certain functions in Maintenance from unauthorised use.

Functions you can protect

You can protect the following functions:

The protection only works, if you have defined the relevant user groups, rights and users in the User Administration program.
 

 

To use this function …

you must have this right (defined in User Administration)

Define and edit maintenance jobs

Can define
(typically system designer)

Protect filters

Can use system commands
(typically system designer)

Protect maintenance filters

Can use system commands
(typically system designer)

Can acknowledge alarms

Can ack alarms
(typically operators)

Can acknowledge maintenance alarms

Can ack alarms
(typically operators)

How to protect the functions

To protect the functions, you must open the User Administration program and define the relevant user groups and user rights and add the users to the groups. As an example, you could have the following groups:
 

This user group …

has the following rights …

Admin

Can define, Can administer, Can use system commands

Designer

Can define, Can administer, Can use system commands

Operator

Can ack alarms

How it works

Once everything is set up properly, the rights of the user who is currently logged in will be checked. If a user tries to perform an operation that he is not entitled to do, the Temporary Login dialogue appears allowing another user with the necessary right to log in. The figure below shows this dialogue.

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