A class is an alternate grouping of users that establishes access rights to entities, CRE properties, or CRE projects. To establish class security, you can create classes, and then assign users to a class. You can add as many classes as your organization needs to establish security. However, a given user may only be assigned to one class of each type. Before you add classes, you should determine the number of classes your organization needs based on how you want to restrict users' access rights.
Once you determine the classes your organization needs, the next step is to add the classes to MRI.
Note
You must have Modify Roles permissions to add or modify an entity class. Refer to Adding and Maintaining Users and Access Rights for more information.
To create a new entity class, follow these steps:
1. Go to Classes.
2. Click the Entity tab.
3. In the Database field, select the database to contain the new class.
Note
If you only have access to one database, it is selected by default.
4. Click Add.
5. In the Create New Security Class dialog box, complete the following fields:
▪ Name—Enter a unique name for the entity class limited to 20 characters.
▪ Description—Enter a description for the entity class limited to 40 characters.
6. Click Save.
7. In the right panel, in the Assign by field, select the level of entity access.
8. To filter or sort the entities by current access level, entity ID or number, or description, use the filter fields in the header row of the grid. For example, to see entity descriptions containing the word "cafe", enter cafe in the Description filter field.
9. Use the information in the following list to continue.
Note
The following list describes specifying entity access at the entity level. However, you can also specify entity access at the other levels documented above.
Class Access Option |
Action |
Full access to all entities |
In the header row,
select the FULL check
box. |
View-only access to all entities |
In the header row,
select the VIEW check
box. |
No access to all entities |
In the header row,
select the NOACCESS check
box. |
Full access to selected entities |
Select the check box in the FULL column for each entity to which you want the class to have full access. |
View-only access to selected entities |
Select the check box in the VIEW column for each entity to which you want the class to have view-only access. |
No access to selected entities |
Select the check box in the NOACCESS column for each entity to which you want the class to have no access. |
10. Click Save.