Access Rights Tool Window View

View for the model administrator for setting and withdrawing access and read rights.

Purpose

The Access Rights tool window view enables you to set and revoke access and read rights (visibility) for user roles. This makes is easier to assign parts of models to corresponding roles. This makes it easy to make whole areas visible for those with respective access or hidden.

Prerequisite

The view only appears when you log-in as model administrator or with temporary administrator rights.

Structure

At the top of the window you will see buttons for switching between access and read rights and a drop-down list of roles to modify access and read rights for.

The activated button shows you which rights you are currently editing.

The packages and components of the model are displayed in a tree structure. For the access rights, all elements for which access rights can be managed are displayed in the structure.

Context

Access right means that users in the selected role can create, modify and delete elements in this package.

If read rights have been withdrawn, the package and everything below it is hidden, meaning that these elements cannot be seen by the user in the selected role.

Note

The standard user Guest has read rights to intersections of read rights for all roles in the model, i.e. packages that all roles have a read right for. This might mean that a guest can only see the root node of the model.

In both views, a checked box indicates that a right exists.

Access rights can be defined as follows:

Explicitly for a package
For a package and all subordinate elements

If read rights are withdrawn from a package, this leads to the role also losing the read right for all subordinate packages. The subordinate nodes are then entirely hidden from the view to make it easier to read.

Use

Rights can be set and withdrawn by clicking on the box next to the package. The space bar switches the state of all selected nodes at the same time (inverting is not carried out on the basis of elements).

Clicking the mouse in the Access view while pressing the [Ctrl] key switches the states of all subordinate packages and elements as well (in the case of read rights, the sub-packages disappear, see above).

All changes affect the roles selected above.