Users and Groups

The central objects of the user and privilege management are users and groups.


Characteristic Features of the User Object


Characteristic Features of the Group Object


Create User and Groups

The following system forms can be used to create and manage all users and groups:

How to create a user:

  1. Open the User Data form and enter a new user master record.

    Field Comment Confer
    User Name Here you enter the user name. You will later be able to change that name, because in DataView users are uniquely identified by the UIC only. -
    Ident Code (UIC) DataView automatically assigned the UIC. You can change it when a user is newly created (five digits possible). After storing the user record this is not possible any longer. -
    Manager Privilege Developing users can get manager privileges here. -> Manager and end-user
    Inactive Flag to deactivate a user.
    Profile Here you select an existing profile if you want to control user access to menu items or buttons via profiles. -> Profile
    Password DataView automatically enters an encrypted password here as soon as the user has been assigned one. -> Password Protection
    Logins Here DataView logs the number of wrong passwords entered by the user at login.

    After storing the user is completely defined.

  2. Change into the Photo sub-form if you want to store photo for the user and the database.

    The function Import image opens a dialogue, in which you can select graphics file. The graphics file will be immediately stored in the database and displayed in the image window after opening.

How to create a group:

  1. Open the Group Data form and enter a new group record:

    Field Comment Confer
    Group Name Here you enter the group name. You will later be able to change that name, because in DataView users are uniquely identified by the GIC only. -
    Ident Code (GIC) DataView automatically assigned the GIC. You can change it when a group is newly created (five digits possible). After storing the group record this is not possible any longer. -
    Profile Here you select an existing profile if you want to control access to menu items or buttons of all group members via profiles. -> Profile

    After storing the group is completely defined.

Please note that the (DTV) user and group name mustn't contain German "Umlauts"! It is recommended to only use the ASCII code character set for group and user names!

How to add a user to a group:

  1. Open the Group Data form and get the desired group into the header form:

  2. Change into the sub-list User Assignment and create the relation to the user by inserting a new record, entering or selecting an existing user into the first field and assigning the relation attributes:

    Field Comment Confer
    User Name Here you directly enter the user name or you select it from the user master in the modal window. -
    Access Here you select the maximum access privilege for the user in the group. -> Access to Data Stock of Groups
    Default Group Here you specify whether the group in the header form is to be the default group for the user. -> Default Group

    After storing, the group-user relation is completely defined.