Protecting Objects in the Project Using Access Rights

Considerations

When you protect objects by setting access rights, keep in mind that modifications of some (primary) objects may implicitly require modifications of other (secondary) objects. For example, modifications of a visualization will implicitly modify the GlobalTextList object. If the access rights required for modifying the secondary object are not available, a message will be displayed while modifying the primary object. If you cancel this message, a corresponding message will be displayed in the Messages view.

NOTE: Assign identical access rights to the secondary objects.

Protecting Objects by Setting Access Rights in the Permissions Dialog Box

This procedure describes how to protect individual objects of a project by setting access rights in the Permissions dialog box:

Step	Action	Comment
1	Execute the command Project > User Management > Permissions....	Result: The Permissions dialog box is displayed: The left-hand side displays the categories of the Actions, the right-hand side displays the user groups that are available.
2	Expand the Actions category on the left-hand side and the subnode of the action whose permission you want to modify.	–
3	Select the Actions node on the left-hand side, and on the right-hand side in the Permissions area, select the group for which you want to modifiy the permission. Multiple selection of entries is allowed.	Result: The icons in the toolbar of the Permissions area are enabled.
4	Click an icon in the toolbar of the Permissions area to modifiy the permission of the group for the action on the target object.	Result: The symbol that is displayed in front of the selected group or groups is updated according to the new permission that has been assigned. The new permission becomes effective immediately.

Protecting Objects by Setting Access Rights in the Object Properties

Use the properties of an object to configure whether the members of a group have the right to view, edit or remove the object and to add/remove child objects to/from the object:

Step	Action	Comment
1	Right-click the object in the Devices tree and execute the command Properties... from the contextual menu.	Result: The Properties dialog box is displayed.
2	Select the Access control tab.	–
3	In the Groups, actions, and permissions table, double-click the symbol of the permission that you want to modify.	Result: A list opens displaying the options Grant, Deny, Clear.
4	Select the suitable option, and click OK / Apply.	Result: The symbol that is displayed in front of the selected group or groups is updated according to the new permission that has been assigned. The new permission becomes effective immediately.