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Permission names

Description 

Administration

Access to administration module.

AddToOrderCart

Access to add parts to order cart  (‘add-to-order’ cart button). 

PlaceOrder

Access to place order and to MyOrders menu. This permission also allow user to save order.

Note that user without permission will actually see place order and save buttons, but will get directed to login page if pressing any of these buttons.

System

Default access.

CompanyAdministration

Access to Create/update company details and create/update users and access to order received to company.

Bulletin

Access to bulletin module.

Feedback

Access to feedback module.

MyAccount

Access to my account module. This permission also allows user to add notes if notes function is enabled.

LoginPermission

Access to login. This function is used to be able to approve users before they are allowed to sign in.

Synchronize

Access to synchronize data to offline viewer from web-viewer.

Quotation

Access to create quotation.

PartReplacementAccess to view Part replacement history.
PriceDisplayModesUsers can choose to show discounts in settings.
PriceUser can see price.
AvailabilityUser can see availability.
EditShippingAddressUser can edit shipping address. EdiShippingAddress function need to be turned on.
EditBillingAddressUser can edit billing address. EditBillingAddress function need to be turned on.

Permissions to data

Permissions may be created on information in the system. Permission can be any names and there can be an unlimited number of permission created.

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The connections between permissions and groups are defined in the permissions.config file. Which groups users belog to is defined by the user's credentials which may be fetched from Signifikant's database or from external solutions as an Active Directory.

Manager

Permissions can be set on data in Manager. Nodes and Presentations may have permissions. At publish it is possible to limit which permissions are actually published to a web server or to an offline version. This function allows to limit the actual data available on a remote istallation.

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Which permissions are available to select in the Manager is controlled by permissions.config located on the Manager server. The permissions.config is located at: 

C:\ProgramData\Signifikant\Assert

WebViewer

If Signifikant Web Viewer is used for administrating users and groups permissions, admin will be able to select groups (0 or more) on each user. The permissions are available under each user in the admin section of the Web Viewer.

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Which permissions are available to select in the Web Viewer is controlled by permissions.config located on the web server. The permissions.config is located at: 

Server level: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AssertWeb\App_Data
Site level: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AssertWeb\App_Data\<site>

If permissions.config exist in both App_Data and in App_Data\<site>, the version in <site> will be used.

Permissions.config

<Id>1</Id>

This is integer value written in incremental way.

<Enabled>true</Enabled>

true or false will disable or enable Permission. If false, access control will be turned off for that function and users will be allowed to access the function.

<Name>MyAccount</Name>

This holds the name of Permission resource.

<Note>Users can access MyAccount settings</Note>  

Description of permission.

<Groups>
  <string>EndClient</string>
</Groups>

Groups hold the role applied to user.

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