Access rights

Access rights control the operations that a user or a group of users can use on a model or group of models.

For example, you might want to allow all users full access only to the models they create, but read-only access to models created by other users. For a combination of user and model, the access rights that can be granted are:

• Create
• Delete
• Read
• Write

You can restrict how users can access the database areas by forcing them to create model names that end with their initials:

1. Log on to PowerShape as a user with administrative privileges (for example, admin).

2. Double-click the Command box in the status bar to open the Command window.

3. In the Command window, type: admin create access

4. Type the pattern of model names that the user can operate on, in single quotes. For example: '*.abc'

5. Type the initials of the user in single quotes. For example: 'abc'

   Note: You can type this string as a pattern so it can match more than one user. If the user's initials match more than one pattern, the access rights are determined by the most closely matching pattern.

6. Type the user's access rights to the models. You can choose from: create, delete, read, write, or none.

An example of this command is:

• admin create access '*' 'abc' read
• admin create access '*.abc' 'abc' create delete read write

User abc can read everyone else's models, but can only create, delete, read, and write to models ending with the name .abc.