Accessing Core Security Management

You this functionality through the App Management Tabs. From the Security tab you can manage multiple things, including what roles exist in the system & what particular tasks they can carry out within the portal.

The UI

When you access the security tab, you’re greeted with something that looks like this:

This grid shows the bare minimum amount of roles that are required for our system and they determine what can be viewed/interacted with in a particular scenario. For example if you’re not logged in (guest), the access you have is massively limited. If you’re a new user (users) then you have access to more than a guest would have, however this is still limited to what privileges you’ve been granted as a user. And of course, administrators have a lot more privileges than normal users do.

Expanding the users one gives you another grid that looks like this:

Within this expanded view, you can manage what users are in each role and remove them from the roles if necessary. You will also see that there is a Privileges tab in this expanded view, this is a way to control each of the roles and what actions they can carry out. As an example (see the following screenshot), users are only able to “read” (view) apps and are unable to create, update and delete them as those are tasks that can only be carried out by admins in this case.

Selecting which privileges should be applied to a role is done simply by just selecting the appropriate boxes on the appropriate grid rows.

Adding a User to a Role

There are two ways in which you can add a user to a role, the first way is to click the “Add User By Id” button which will bring up a dialog that looks something like this:

In here, you must enter the user’s Id into the text box and press confirm. If the user’s Id is unknown to you, then you can click on the “Add Users” button that will bring up a dialog that looks something like this:

Here you must find the user you wish to add to the role. If you click the filter buttons at the top of the columns, you can search for a specific user which will make it easier to add them to the role you wish to. For example, to add User 12345 to the User’s role here you would select the top row and then click the confirm button. This will then grant the user the privileges associated with that role.

Creating a Role

To create a new role in this UI, you click on the “New Role” button in the header bar. Clicking this will bring up a dialog that looks something like this:

Creating a Role is incredibly simple, only requiring you to add a name to it. Once you’ve filled in this field and clicked confirm, your new role will now exist in the system. You can then begin applying specific privileges to it and add users to it.

For now, I have created a test role to demonstrate how a new one would look within the existing list.

Updating a Role

You can edit the name you’ve given to your role by just clicking on it within the grid:

Once you’ve made any changes you want, you click the “Save” button on the corresponding grid row and any changes you’ve made will be saved.

Deleting a Role

To delete a role that you no longer want or need then you click the “Delete” button that will remove your role and from the our system.