This page is for PhixFlow administrators who need to assign privileges to roles. It describes the privilege settings. 

Overview

PhixFlow has many privileges, each representing a specific tasks that a PhixFlow user can do. For example to create and change a stream object table, a user needs the privileges Create Streams and Modify Streams.

Privileges are assigned to, for example, Designer, User, Administrator. Then roles and user groups are linked. For more information about how users, user groups, roles and privileges are connected, see pages in the User Administration topic.

Types of Privilege

Privileges apply to modelling objects, application components and administration items, such as users. Privileges have the following types:

• View: you can see the item throughout PhixFlow

• List: you can see the item in the repository

• . You must also have the view privilege.

• Create: you can create a new item.

• Modify: you can change an existing item

• Delete: you can delete an item.

Finding Privileges

To find privileges, in the repository

scroll down to the 

You may see privilege icons with different colours:

• yellow 

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   indicates actions that require this privilege will not be audited.
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   indicates actions that require this privilege will be audited.

See Managing Audits, below, for details.

You cannot add or remove privileges. You can make changes to a privilege, for example to add roles or to change the Audit this Action option. To change a privilege, double-click on the name to open its property tab.

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Basic Settings

Managing Audits

If you want to change the Audit This Action option for several privileges, use the detailed list.

1. In the repository scroll down to the 

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    section.
2. Right-click

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    and select 

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   . PhixFlow opens full list of the privileges with an Audit This Action check box for each.
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3. Click the check boxes to change whether or not audit is selected.

Roles

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with standard buttons and 

The grid contains a list of roles that have this privilege; see Roles. To add a role to the list:

1. Click

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    to list all the roles in the repository.
2. Drag roles into this list to add the privilege to the role.

To remove roles from the privilege, use the