The rights management allows you to create user groups and assign particular editing rights to them. You can also subsequently edit or delete user groups.
Note:
The user groups predefined by EPLAN - "Administrators" and "Guests" - cannot be edited or deleted.
Precondition:
You have opened the rights management: File > Extras > Command group Extensions > Rights management > Rights management
Create user groups
- To the left of the Rights management dialog, select the Groups folder, and click
(New). - In the Group dialog, enter a name and short description of the allowed editing rights of the new user group. In contrast to the user names, a distinction is made between upper and lower case in the group names, i.e., a group "QS" and a group "Qs" are different groups.
- Click [OK].
The group is created, but editing rights have not yet been assigned. - Assign editing rights to the group as described under "Assign rights to groups".
Copy user group
- To the left of the Rights management dialog, select the Groups folder.
- Select a user group in the field on the right and click
(Copy). - In the Group dialog, enter a name and short description of the allowed editing rights of the new user group. In contrast to the user names, a distinction is made between upper and lower case in the group names, i.e., a group "QS" and a group "Qs" are different groups.
- Click [OK]. The group is created and possesses the editing rights of the previously selected user group.
- Modify, if required, the editing rights as described under "Assign rights to groups".
Edit user groups
- To the left of the Rights management dialog, select the Groups folder.
- Select a (self-defined) user group in the right-hand field and click
(Edit). - In the Group dialog, change the name or description.
- Click [OK]. The dialog is closed and the changed data is displayed in the Rights management dialog.
Delete user groups
- To the left of the Rights management dialog, select the Groups folder.
- Select a (self-defined) user group in the right-hand field and click
(Delete). After confirmation of the warning message, the group name is deleted.
Assign rights to groups
- In the Rights management dialog, click the
sign next to the Groups folder to open the folder and select a user group. The available rights are displayed on the right and are grouped according to topic area. - Click the plus sign to open the subordinate rights in front of a topic area. The rights are divided into editing rights for menu items, dialogs, and API actions. The rights for dialogs are also identified by "[Dialog]". The rights for API actions are also identified by "[Interface]".
- Select the check boxes in front of the rights the user groups are to possess and deactivate those that are to be revoked.
- Click [OK]. The activated rights will be assigned to the user group. If all subordinate rights are deselected for a topic area, then the check box for the topic area is displayed in gray.
Tip:
You can assign or revoke all of the rights for a particular topic area by selecting or deselecting the check box in front of the topic area.
See also