User Privileges: Defining roles of users - Tip390

OBJECTIVE or GOAL

How to define the roles of users 

ENVIRONMENT

• Empower
• Empower Tip of the Week #390

PROCEDURE

To define the roles of users in your organization, you can create user types with unique names that describe the job functions of users in your laboratory. Then you assign each user type a unique set of privileges to define their access to software functions and tasks they can perform.

NOTE: the screen captures in this tip were obtained with Empower version 3.8.0. 

STEP 1
From the Configuration Manager window, click Users in the tree on the left. You can see the Default User Type assigned to the User and the Allowed User Types as a User could have more than one User Type associated with their Empower account. (more about that in an upcoming tip) (figure 1).

STEP 2
Click User Types in the tree on the left. All the User Types listed here, except Lab_Manager, are default User Types included with Empower (figure 2).

STEP 3
To view and/or alter the privileges associated with a User Type, right-click on the User Type and select Properties (figure 3).

STEP 4
The Management tab displays privileges associated with User, Project, Method, System, and other management-related tasks (figure 4). 

STEP 5
The Methods tab displays privileges associated with tasks that users can perform on methods (figure 5). 

STEP 6
The Data Acquisition Tab displays privileges associated with data acquisition-related tasks that users can perform (figure 6). 

As you can see there are many privileges available so that you can customize a User Type to fit a role in the laboratory. Over the next few tips, we will look at some examples.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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