User management

User management is used to assign personal authorisations within the visualisation application. Input control elements can be blocked for certain user groups or access to information about output control elements can be denied. In this way, individual persons can be given access only to the function modules corresponding to their position.

You categorise users into positions in the User administration system module (project explorer node User administration) by defining user groups (e.g. operator, service technician, administrator). You create individual users in the user groups. You assign the rights (e.g. may operate machine, may terminate application, may reset service intervals, may administer users, etc.) to all users in this group at user group level. The users, on the other hand, only contain individual identification features such as name, password or personalised codes.

The following sections describe

how to create user groups and users,
how to create rights,
how to link controls with rights,
where you will find the available dialogues for user administration.