Assigning Access Control to Entities

Specific access rights can be assigned for individual entities. They allow you to deliberately restrict the permissions of users that have been created and totally block specific actions in the software. In the tree structure, these access rights can be assigned below the root element.

Example: If a “User A” is granted access rights to an entity of type “Building” that has been created, this entity is locked for “User B” and “User C” and not visible to these users in the tree structure. Thus “User B” and “User C” are totally prevented from making edits, and only “User A” as access rights.

Access rights that are granted are further inherited in the tree structure below the root element if no other user is granted corresponding access rights for lower-level entities. The access rights also affect the other menu items, meaning that, as a general rule, they only show what can actually be edited.

Note

Access control also affects global activities in the software!

As a user with restricted access rights, you cannot perform the following actions:

  1. Reloading device settings
  2. Updating application templates
  3. Editing addressing systems
  1. Log in with the “Owner” role to perform these actions!

The following sections explain how to create individual users and assign access rights.