Working with Management Roles and Permissions Understanding Users, Groups, and Roles
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This section includes the following topics:
• “Understanding User Roles” on page 333
• “Default System Roles and Permissions” on page 334
• “Customized Roles and Responsibilities” on page 340
Understanding User Roles
The RealPresence Resource Manager system is a role and permissions based
system.
• Users can assigned one or more user roles either directly or through their
group associations.
• User roles are assigned a set of permissions. The system comes with
default roles for both system-wide and area management tasks.
• Users see only the pages and functions available to their roles and
associated permissions. Permissions are cumulative, so users see all of the
pages and functions assigned to all of their roles and associated
permissions.
• If your company has implemented the Areas feature, users are restricted
to the manage resources in the areas they are assigned to manage,
according to the role they are given.
While the RealPresence Resource Manager system allows businesses almost
unlimited flexibility in defining roles, for simplicity and clarity, we
recommend keeping the default roles with their default permissions and
responsibilities. Because users can be assigned multiple roles, and permissions
are cumulative, your business can combine roles as needed to reflect the
workload your people undertake to manage and use the system.
An administrator has several options when implementing user roles.
1 Implement only the default user roles and keep the standard permissions
assigned to these roles.
2 Implement only the default user roles but change the permissions
assigned to these roles.
• Users inherit roles from their parent groups—local or enterprise. They cannot
inherit roles from groups more distantly removed—for example, from their
grandparent groups.
• The default role names are stored in the system database and are not
localized into other languages. If you wish to localized their names into your
language, edit the roles and enter new names for them.
