Adding or editing a user

A network user defines the type of person or machine that is allowed access to a station. For example, admin, operator, machine-to-machine (M2M). Under the station's Services container, the UserService provides a default User Manager view for you to add, delete, and edit network users.

Your system has at least one Supervisor station and one or more subordinate controller stations. Each station in your network provides access to a set of users who share configuration properties. These may include station-to-station users as well as an admin, operator, and other typical access functions. You are working in Workbench and are connected to a local Supervisor station.
  1. To configure access permissions, expand Config > Services > RoleService and add (click New) a role for each type of user.
    Station-to-station users should have very limited roles. Other types of users, such as operators, may be allowed to view data but not make changes.
  2. Create the same roles in each subordinate controller station.
    Synchronization does not replicate roles in target, subordinate stations.
  3. Configure the default prototype by expanding Config > Services > UserService, and double-clicking Default Prototype.
    The UserService uses this prototype to set up each system user. It should contain all the standard values for user properties.
  4. Make any changes to the default prototype required to support your company and click Save.
  5. To make a custom user prototype, which the system will use to synchronize users across your network, right-click the Default Prototype, click Duplicate and give the prototype a descriptive name based on its uniquely-configured properties.
  6. Double-click the UserService node in the station Nav tree.
    The User Manager view opens.
  7. To create a new user, click the New button, otherwise, to edit an existing user select the user and click the Edit button.
    The New or Edit window opens.
    Note: If the Secure Only Password Set property is set to true, and the connection to the station is not secure (using Fox or HTTP instead of Foxs or HTTPs), the New button is disabled.
  8. Create or modify user properties and click Save.
    Properties to configure include Prototype Name, Network User, Authentication Scheme Name, and Roles.

    In a multi-station system, you could create this same user in each station or use synchronization to replicate the user changes in one station to all other stations in the network.