Overview

The Resource Security form is used to assign permissions at a resource level. Resources controlled at this time are plants and the DX Services. 

For the plants, the objective is to filter user’s access based on the plant they are associated with, or plants they are specifically assigned to.   For example, in a multi-plant installation users may only have access to view equipment within their plant.  However, upper management may have the ability to view multiple, or all plants. 

Setting Plant and DX Service Permissions

On the Manage Users form users can be assigned to a plant.  This assignment to a plant will be used for the default permissions allowing the user to view only the associated plant and its equipment.   By default, users will only have access to the plant they are associated with.  If a user is not assigned to any plant they would not have access to any plants.

On the Manage Resources form the security is assigned to user groups, not individual users.  Select a user group from the list and press the Modify button.  The associated user group can not be assigned permissions to plants and DataXchange Services.  If an item is checked then members of the associated user group will have access to the item.  If a user is a member of multiple user groups the permissions will be accumulative from the separate user groups.  If a user is a member of a user group that has Resource Security assignments then the default plant the user is associated with on the Users form will be irrelevant, the explicitly assigned permissions will be applied.

For the DX Services, there will not be any defaults, the permissions will simply go off of the user group permissions.  If the user is not assigned any permissions through any user groups then the user will have access to all DX Services.  If the user is assigned permissions then those permissions will be applied.

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