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Select Setup: Site Settings: User Roles.
On this page you can define and name detailed custom user roles for users of the Security Application.
Note: For selecting a user role for a specific system user use the Login tab of the Personal Information page.
The Security Application Main Menu is built dynamically for each user who logs in. It will show only those menus, cameras, access levels, elevators, floor plans, events, and personal information that the user has permission to view or use based upon their assigned user role.
To create a custom set of user roles
Click the add link just under the Name drop-down list.
Enter a name for this set of user roles in the Name text box, e.g. security monitor roles.
Select from the View System/Node Messages drop-down whether this role should include seeing controller and node message files.
Select from the Threat Level Group drop-down list a threat level group to assign to this user role. This user role will function only if the current system threat level is a member of the assigned threat level group.
NOTE: Select <not applicable> if the system threat level should NOT affect the behavior of this user role.
For Camera Groups, Elevator Groups, Floor plan Groups, Portal Groups, Event Groups and Access Levels select from the Available list boxes and click the right arrow to move them to the Selected list boxes. Do this for all the items that you wish included in this user role.
Note: To the right of each group's list boxes are one to three check boxes. A check in these check boxes enables that particular user role. For example: for Camera Groups check View to allow a user to see the camera images, check Presets to allow the user to move cameras to preset positions, and check PTZ to allow a user to have full pan, tilt, and zoom control.
CAUTION: Floor plan permissions are a special case. Allowing a system user access to a floor plan will allow them access to all resources placed on the floor plan regardless of the permissions granted elsewhere on this page.
If, for example, you wish to restrict some user's access to a particular portal you can create two floor plans. Place the particular portal on one of the floor plans, and not on the other. Assign the two versions of that floor plan appropriately.
Select from the Personal Information Available list box the specific permissions you wish to assign to this user role and click the right arrow to move them to the Selected list box.
Click Save.
Now go to the Login tab of the Personal Information page to assign this defined user role to a specific person.
How do I create custom security application user roles?
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7th of July, 2011
