Configuring permissions

Permissions represent privileges that a user must have to access various Console modules.

How permissions are granted to users

Before you configure permissions, it is helpful to understand how permissions are granted to individual users. All three types of entities in the hub community, the Community Operator, the Community Manager, and participants, have an Admin user. When you create a Community Manager or participant, you are actually creating the Admin user for that entity. (In the case of the Community Operator, the Hub Admin is automatically created, as is another Admin user for the hub.)

When you create the participant (as defined in Creating participant profiles), you provide the participant with login information (such as the name to use to log in and the password). After the participant logs in, the participant creates additional users within the organization. The participant also creates groups and assigns users to those groups. For example, an organization might want to have a group for people who monitor document volume. The participant would create a Volume group and add users to it.

Note: As the Hub Admin user, you can also define the users and groups for a participant.

The Admin user for the participant would then assign permissions to that group of users. For example, the Admin user might decide that the Volume group should see only the Document Volume and Document Analysis reports. The Admin user, using the Group Details page, would enable the document reports module but disable all other modules for the Volume group.

The setting you, as the Hub Admin, make on the Permissions page determines whether a module is listed on the Group Details page.

Some modules are restricted to certain members of the hub community (for example, the Hub Admin). Therefore, even if you enable one of these modules for use by a participant, the module will not be displayed on the Group Details page for the participant.

Enabling or disabling permissions

From the Permission List page, you can determine which permissions will be available to assign to groups of users by enabling or disabling the permissions. You cannot, however, define new permissions.

To change the default permissions:

  1. Click Hub Admin > Console Configuration > Permissions. The Permission List is displayed.
  2. If you want to change the defaults, perform the following steps:
    1. Click the current setting (Enabled or Disabled) to change the setting.
    2. When you are prompted to confirm the change, click OK.

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