Adding Roles and Users for Authenticated Access

Adding a Role

  1. Log into the Management Console.
  2. Go to the System > Security > Roles item on the left hand side menu.
  3. Click Add.

    A dialog will show allowing you to enter a role name and optionally tick to enable permissions on various secured entities.

  4. Enter the name of the new Role. For a role to be available with Spectrum Spatial Analyst its name must start with the word “Analyst”. For example AnalystRole1.
  5. Click Save to save it.
    Note: For more information, refer to Creating a Role section in Spectrum Spatial Admin Guide.
Adding Users and assigning them to a role
  1. Log into the Management Console.
  2. Go to the System > Security > Users item on the left hand side menu.
  3. Click Add.

    A dialog will show allowing you to enter the user’s name and other details.

  4. Enter the name of the new user and ensure that the user is added to one or more of the Analyst roles.
  5. Click Save.
    Note: For more information, refer to Adding a User section in Spectrum Spatial Admin Guide.

Note: You should not assign any user specific permissions to the user. All the permissions the user needs will be assigned to the Analyst roles. Analyst will only look at role permissions when a user signs in and will ignore any user specific permissions that have been assigned.