The Roles & Permissions section allows administrators to create and manage user roles and control access to functionality within WATS.
Note: Roles and Permissions cannot be edited on Basic, Analytics, or Legacy Cloud plans.
By default, WATS includes a set of predefined roles. These roles are marked with a lock icon on the right-hand side of their names.
Predefined roles:
Cannot be renamed or deleted.
Can have their permissions modified, provided the logged-in user has permission to edit roles.
If the selected role’s permissions cannot be edited, a warning icon will appear at the top of the permissions list.
Important: The Administrator role is always read-only and cannot be modified or renamed.
Managing Permissions
Permissions are organized hierarchically, allowing both top-level and sub-level permissions.
Each parent permission has an arrow icon to the left, which can be clicked to expand or collapse sub-level permissions.
Activating or deactivating a top-level permission automatically enables or disables all its sub-level permissions.
- A top-level permission can remain active even if some or all of its sub-level permissions are inactive.
Assigning Roles to Users
Once roles are created or modified, they can be assigned to users from the Users module.
To do this, go to Control Panel → Users & Account → Users and connect a user to a role.
For more details, see the Help file available in the upper right corner. See also Users.
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Is it true that the Analyzer role is able to add/remove notifications for all users? I would prefer that each user could only edit their own notifications - not for entire roles.
Hi Lasse, what notifications are you referring to?
If you are on the Enterprise plan you can edit the Roles & Permission settings as you prefer.
Hi Tom. It is the "ALARMS AND NOTIFICATIONS" where you can setup rules. I think some of the default notifications are "Unit not passed after 5'th run". We have the Analytics plan. Most of my white collar colleagues have the analyzer role. But I think Analyzer actually have the rights to edit all the rules for notifications that are setup (for everyone). I think there is only one layer of rules (not all users and individual user levels). But I can see from the changelog that some users have edited the rules. I would argue that each user edits the rules with good intentions - to target specific locations or whatever. Just as you could do it with your email client inbox - I would not expect these rules to apply for other users. Don't know if it makes sense :-)
Hi Lasse, yes I guess it makes sense, but Alarms and notification is "global account settings" as it is now.
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