Role

Description

Administrator

Allowed to perform the following:

·         view, rename, move, copy, download, interact, and publish/republish workbooks into folders to which the user has permissions to

·         add, rename, or remove folders and subfolders and manage users and groups that should be granted or denied access

·         import or export workbooks bundle

·         administer the server which includes:

o    manage data templates

o    create global data extracts from connectors

o    create and manage alerts and specify the email address of the user or group who will receive the alert

o    view and manage plugin subscriptions

o    manage caches

o    specify logging level and view and copy logs

o    create and manage scheduled tasks

o    create and manage global parameters

o    manage workbook themes

o    view logged in users to the server and log them out

o    view server settings, set the file logging level, and clear cache

These topics are discussed in the Altair Panopticon Visualization Installation and Troubleshooting Guide.

Viewer

Allowed to view and analyze fully interactive dashboards. This is the default role assigned to users that cannot be mapped to other roles.

Designer

Allowed to perform the following:

·         view, create, upload, rename, move, copy, download, merge, remove workbooks, and publish/republish them into folders to which the user has permissions to

·         Import or export workbooks bundle

·         Add, rename, or remove folders and subfolders and manage users and groups that should be granted or denied access

·         create and manage global parameters

·         create and manage alerts and specify the email address of the user or group who will receive the alert

Anonymous

Allowed to view workbooks if authentication.required is set to false.

Property

Description

Default Value

access.administrator.groups

The role that is mapped to the administrator group.

admin

access.default.roles

The default roles applied to all users of the server.

For example, if access.default.roles=DESIGNER,ADMINISTRATOR and a user with a VIEWER role logs on to the server, then the user will simultaneously have a VIEWER, DESIGNER, and ADMINISTRATOR roles.

However, if no default roles are wanted, then leave the property blank.

NOTE: The roles that can be assigned in this property can only be ADMINISTRATOR, VIEWER, ANONYMOUS, and/or DESIGNER. This property is case sensitive.

VIEWER

access.designer.groups

The role that is mapped to the designer group.

designer

access.viewer.groups

The role that is assigned to the viewer group.

NOTE

·         Group sets can be added for a role, separated by a comma.

·         To be able to use all of the features of the Visualization Server, a user is required to have Designer and Administrator roles.

·         When using the HyperWorks Units licensing, different user roles will check out different numbers of HyperWorks Units.