Nortel Viewer User Manual page 61

September 2007
Roles
Within the Administration tree view, the Roles node allows you to view
existing security roles, the queries available to them and the users that
belong to each role. You can also define the desktop appearance of roles.
What is a role?
Typical roles are that of the Administrator, with access to all the
administration functions within an application, and the standard User, with
access to user functionality only. As in this example, you can give different
users different levels of access to an application, allowing only authorized
users to access advanced or confidential areas of an application.
Many users can belong to a role. When you define the attributes of a role,
they are applied to every user who belongs to that role. For example, you
may have all your standard users of the Viewer application in a group called
Viewer Users. These users will all inherit the attributes of the Viewer Users
role and share the same level of access to the application.
A user may belong to more than one role. This accommodates users with
different access requirements. For example you may have a standard user
who has query building responsibilities. To fulfill this role, this user will
also need access to the Viewer functionality.
Other functionality
The following functions can also be found within each role, click to expand
the text:
Applications
Expand the application node within a role, to view all the applications that
are available to members of that role. Each application listed will in turn
expand to display the queries that are available to it.
Note: When adding the Builder application to a role, ensure you also add
the Viewer application to that role, as the Builder functionality can only be
accessed from the Viewer application.
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