Smart Engineering Manager uses roles to define and maintain user privileges and rights at the plant structure level. The Roles node displays the roles defined for the plant structure.
Roles might be tied directly to a Windows user group where each role has exactly one group associated with it. In these cases, the name and description of the role is the name and description of the group, and individual users cannot be added to a role, but are instead added to a user group, and then that group is added as a role in Smart Engineering Manager. For example, the SiteAdmins role, shown above, is tied to the SiteAdmins group defined using the Users and Passwords utility in the Windows Control Panel.
The individual members of the example SiteAdmins group were added using the user group tools provided in the Windows Control Panel.
In another type of role definition, you can specify a role and assign individual users to that role, even if those users belong to different Windows user groups.
Each application, including Smart Engineering Manager, has its own categories and rights. The Smart Engineering Manager rights pertain to plant structure and format access in general.
During site creation, you specified the group that you wanted to have site administrator
privileges. Members of this group now possess a set of unique rights that cannot be
granted to any other role. These rights include creating plant structures, creating
and modifying hierarchies, creating and modifying plant group types, enabling projects,
and so forth. Site administrators can see all plant structures in the site and have
full access to them. Site administrator privileges do not extend to the engineering
products. That is, a member of the group granted site administrator privileges does
not automatically have full control privileges in Smart P&ID or Smart Electrical.
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To increase performance and usability as well as ensure better data protection and security, user access data is stored in the site schema instead of in a separate database.
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For more information about creating Windows user groups, see Smart P&ID User Rights Examples or Smart Electrical User Rights Examples.