User Role

User Roles define the access privileges that Users have to the various types of objects found within the program (i.e. Line Sections, Line Section Equipment, Voltages, ...).

The names of the User Roles are defined by your System/Network Administrator and must match a corresponding User Group within your local area network (LAN). A User Group can be either a Windows® Active Directory Group or a local User Group. It is the responsibility of your System/Network Administrator to establish the Windows® User Groups, their names and their members. Group members are defined as those Windows® users that can logon to your computer or a computer within your LAN. It is also the responsibilty of your Database Administrator to grant access to the program's underlying SQL Server database and its associate stored procedures.

For example:

User Role Name	Active Directory Group Name	Group Members
Thermal Ratings Administrators	Thermal Ratings Administrators	Doug
Thermal Ratings Transmission - Administrators	Thermal Ratings Transmission - Administrators	Tom
Thermal Ratings Transmission - Users	Thermal Ratings Transmission - Users	Linda Ron Gene Anne
Thermal Ratings Transmission - Guests	Thermal Ratings Transmission - Guests	Susan Tony Frank Melanie
Thermal Ratings Distribution - Guests	Thermal Ratings Distribution - Guests	Susan Mark Melanie

User Roles can be created, modified and deleted from the "User Roles" window.
To manage the list of known User Roles, use the 'User Roles...' menu item on the Application's main window.

User Role Window

You add User Roles by entering a unique name on the last/empty cell in the list of User Roles.

Once the Windows® User Groups are established and the Thermal Ratings "User Roles" are created you can define what type of actions each group of users will be allow to perform within the program.

Defining user privileges is done by simply 'checking' or 'unchecking' the checkboxes within the 'Privilege' grids on the User Roles window.

Some privileges relate to the supporting data (i.e. Voltages, Conductors) and as such are not specific to any 'Division'; while other privileges relate to data corresponding directly a 'Division'.

The gray cells within the 'Privilege' grid indicate that the associated action/privilege is not used within the program.

To gain access to actions that can be performed on a User Role record utilize the context menu that is accessible via clicking the right mouse button on the User Role, within the list, you wish to edit.

User Role Window - Context Menu

Only users with the 'Write' privilege are allowed to alter User Roles.
Only users with the 'Create' privilege are allowed to create new User Roles.
Only users with the 'Delete' privilege are allowed to delete User Roles.You MUST always have at least one User Role that has the ability to 'Write' User Roles! If there are no users with this ability, then you will not be able to alter User Roles. If this happens then your database administrator will need to manually reenter the 'Write' privilege on a User Role.

Meanings of privilege settings that are specific to individual 'Divisions':

Name	Action	Meaning
Line Section	Read	Users are allow to read, via the corresponding properties window, the properties associated with Line Sections
	Create	Users are allow to create Line Sections
	Write	Users are allow to modify Line Sections
	Delete	Users are allow to delete Line Sections
	Approve	Users are allow to modify the following values associated with a Line Section: Resistance, Reactance, Susceptance and Line Length
Line Section Equipment	Read	Users are allow to read, via the corresponding properties window, the properties associated with Line Section Equipment
	Users are allow to create Line Section Equipment within Line Sections
	Write	Users are allow to modify the properties of Line Section Equipment within Line Sections
	Delete	Users are allow to delete Line Section Equipment from within Line Sections
	Approve	Users are allow to mark equipment within a Line Section as 'Approved'
Terminal	Read	Users are allow to read, via the corresponding properties window, the properties associated with Terminals
	Users are allow to create Terminals
	Write	Users are allow to modify Terminals
	Delete	Users are allow to delete Terminals
Substation	Read	Users are allow to read, via the corresponding properties window, the properties associated with Substations
	Users are allow to create Substations
	Write	Users are allow to modify Substations
	Delete	Users are allow to delete Substations
Limiting Factors Report	Execute	Users are allow to execute/run these Reports
NX-9 Reports	Execute	Users are allow to execute/run these Reports
Going In/Out of Service Reports	Execute	Users are allow to execute/run these Reports

The 'General Privileges' are privileges that correspond to types of data that are not specific to a 'Division'.

Meanings of privilege settings that are not specific to individual 'Divisions':

Action	Meaning
Read	Users are allow to read, via the corresponding properties window, the properties associated with these types of objects
Write	Users are allow to modify properties associated with these types of objects
Create	Users are allow to create these types of objects
Delete	Users are allow to delete these types of objects