Privileges

CitectSCADA provides eight privileges, numbered 1 to 8, that are used to restrict access to parts of the project. To implement privileges into your project:

• Assign a privilege to a particular system element (command, object, report, alarm etc)
• Assign the privilege or privileges to the role or roles that will need to control that system element.

You can allocate different privileges to different types of operation, as in the following example:

To allow a user to operate the conveyors, you assign privilege 1 to the role associated to that user, for example:

To allow a user to acknowledge alarms, you assign privilege 4 to the role associated to that user, for example:

To allow a user to acknowledge alarms and operate the conveyors, you assign both privilege 1 and privilege 4 to the role associated to that user record:

Privilege classifications needs to be separated by commas (,).

To allow a user access to every command in your system, allocate every privilege in the role associated to that user, for example

Note: In assigning a role a global privilege, that role is granted view access to every area automatically. Any user assigned that role will then be able to view every area of the plant.

After you have allocated privileges, you can define the privilege requirements of your system elements (commands, reports, objects, alarms, etc.):

Not every system element needs a privilege classification. At least one command needs to be issued by users, a command to log in to the system:

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