Privileges
- Andrew Stoddart
- Fiona Sargeant (Unlicensed)
- Eleanor Brodie
This page is for PhixFlow administrators who need to assign privileges to roles. It describes the privilege settings. For related information, see the PhixFlow User Administration topic.
Overview
PhixFlow has many privileges, each representing a specific tasks that a PhixFlow user can do. For example to create and change a 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.
For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties. We recommend you always add a Description that explains the purpose of the item you are creating.
For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Properties, Windows, Menus and Toolbars.
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 Privileges section and expand it.
You may see privilege icons with different colours:
- yellow Privileges indicates actions that require this privilege will not be audited.
- red Privilege indicates actions that require this privilege will be audited.
See Privileges#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.
Property Pane Toolbar
For information about the toolbar options, see the Common Properties page, Toolbars and Controls section.
Properties Tab
Basic Settings
Field | Description |
---|---|
Name | The name of the privilege, for example |
Object | The object or component that this privilege applies to for example |
Action | The type of privilege, for example |
Audit This Action | Tick to include actions that require this privilege in the audit summary. |
Managing Audits
If you want to change the Audit This Action option for several privileges, use the detailed list.
- In the repository scroll down to the Privileges section.
- Right-click Privileges and select Show a Detailed List. PhixFlow opens full list of the privileges with an Audit This Action check box for each.
- Click the check boxes to change whether or not audit is selected.
Roles
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons and Roles.
The grid contains a list of roles that have this privilege; see Roles. To add a role to the list:
- Click Roles to list all the roles in the repository.
- Drag roles into this list to add the privilege to the role.
To remove roles from the privilege, use the Delete in the toolbar.
Description
We recommend that you always enter a description to explain the purpose of this item.
Audit Tab
Audit Summary
See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.
Terminology changes in progress
As part of the redesign of PhixFlow, we are changing the following terms:
dashboard → screen
stream → table
stream attributes → attributes
stream item → record
stream set → recordset
stream view → view
stream item action → record-action
stream action → table-action
driver class → database driver