Controlling Catalog Access with Permission Groups - Intergraph Smart 3D - Help

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System administrators can associate branches of the tree view with permission groups to grant limited access for specific users and groups. When you create Catalog data in the editable grid, the Active Permission Group on the toolbar sets the permission group for the new data. Additionally, you can use the Configuration Tab (Reference Data Properties Dialog) on the Reference Data Properties Dialog to specify the active permission group.

You can restrict write access to select lists, piping specification data or other part data by assigning appropriate permissions on the parent folder. In order to modify permissions on a child folder, you must have write permission to the immediate parent folder. If a folder belongs to a permission group for which you have read-only access, you can view the data in that folder, but you cannot add new or modify existing data. For example, to restrict access to creating and modifying all piping reference data, an administrator must set the permission group on the top-level Piping folder to read-only.

You must have write permission on at least one permission group to create new objects. To modify an object, you must have write permission in the permission group of that object. The model database can have multiple permission groups, but Smart 3D supports only one permission group for the catalog database.

If a folder belongs to a permission group to which you have write or full control access, you can add data. In order to modify existing data, you must have write or full control access on that data. For example, if you have write or full control access to the Piping Materials Class folder but read-only access to the 1C0031 specification, you can copy 1C0031 and paste it to create a new specification, but you cannot modify the existing 1C0031 specification.

You create permission groups for the Catalog database and assign levels of access to permission groups in the Project Management task. See Create permission group folders and permission groups in the Project Management Help.

Associating specific parts of the Catalog tree to permission groups not only controls which nodes are visible and editable to users within the Catalog task, it also controls the extent to which users are able to create or place those object types from the catalog in the model within other environments. For example, the administrator creates a Catalog permission group called Duct Permission Group in the Project Management task and assigns write access to its members. In the Catalog task, the system administrator associates the Duct hierarchy folder with the Duct Permission Group.

If a user who is not a member of the Duct Permission Group enters the HVAC task and attempts to create a duct, the software will not allow the operation.

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