Security

The Security application enables an Administrator to create and edit users, and to assign these users to one of four groups. Each of these groups has a set of permissions to "objects" in an AVEVA P&ID SQL Server database. Each of these objects corresponds to a function, activity etc. in AVEVA P&ID. In this way, the access rights of each user are defined.

Five groups are supplied with a project, each corresponding to a predefined role (System Administrator, Designer, Drawing Manager, Drawing User, and User Defined), each with its own permissions.

Other groups can be set up if required, and granted permissions by assigning roles to them, for example, they "inherit" their permissions regarding objects from the role they are assigned. In the case of groups assigned the User Defined role, these permissions can be edited. Permissions inherited from other roles may not be edited.

Optionally, access rights may also be controlled by project design area. As with objects, user groups are granted permissions to such areas. Since drawings are assigned to design areas, this in turn controls which drawings each user can view and/or edit.

Unlike object permissions, area permissions are not inherited by user-created user groups from the role they are allocated, but are instead assigned to them separately. This provides the flexibility required to grant any number of different groups of users different levels of access to different areas and their drawings.

The Security application is also used to switch object/group security restrictions for users on and off, and to set the "Authentication Type" used when accessing AVEVA P&ID applications, for example, whether P&ID Project, Windows or SQL Server user credentials are used.

Facilities are provided to import security settings from another project.