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The default Universal Controller user is ops.admin. It is assigned to one of the default Universal Controller groups, Users and Groups#Administrator Administrator Group.
Default Groups
There are two default groups:
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Step 1 | From the Administration navigation pane, select Security > Users. The Users list displays a list of all currently defined users. |
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Step 2 | Enter/select Details for a new user, using the field descriptions below as a guide.
To display more of the Details fields on the screen, you can either:
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Step 3 | Optionally, assign one or more roles to the user, assign the user to a group, or assign permissions to this user. |
Step 4 | Click a Save button. The user is added to the database, and all buttons and tabs in the User Details are enabled. |
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Details | This section contains detailed information about the user. | |||||||||||
| Log in ID for this user. | |||||||||||
| Password of this user.
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| First name of this user. | |||||||||||
| Middle name of this user. | |||||||||||
| Last name of this user. | |||||||||||
| Automatically generated from the Users and Groups#First First Name and Users and Groups#Last Last Name of this user. | |||||||||||
| Email address of this user. | |||||||||||
| If enabled, the user will be prompted to reset the password at next login. | |||||||||||
| If enabled, locks out the user. This field is enabled automatically if the maximum number of successive failed login attempts has been reached by the user. | |||||||||||
| Login method(s) that the user can authenticate with. (You can use the Ctrl key to select both methods.)
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| Time zone of this user. When this user logs in, all scheduling times will be shown in the user's time zone, unless the trigger specifies a different time zone. | |||||||||||
| Business title of this user. | |||||||||||
| Business department of this user. | |||||||||||
| Business manager of this user. | |||||||||||
| Business phone number of this user. | |||||||||||
| Mobile phone number of this user. | |||||||||||
| Specifies whether or not the user can log in to the user interface.
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| Specifies whether or not the user can log in to the Universal Controller Command Line Interface (CLI).
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| Specifies whether or not the user can log in to the Universal Controller RESTful Web Services API.
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| If enabled, the user ID is active and the user can log in. If disabled, the user is deactivated; the user will not appear in user lists and cannot be used for access to the Controller. | |||||||||||
Metadata | This section contains Metadata information about this record. | |||||||||||
UUID | Universally Unique Identifier of this record. | |||||||||||
Updated By | Name of the user that last updated this record. | |||||||||||
Updated | Date and time that this record was last updated. | |||||||||||
Created By | Name of the user that created this record. | |||||||||||
Created | Date and time that this record was created. | |||||||||||
Buttons | This section identifies the buttons displayed above and below the User Details that let you perform various actions. | |||||||||||
Save | Saves a new user record in the Controller database. | |||||||||||
Save & New | Saves a new record in the Controller database and redisplays empty Details so that you can create another new record. | |||||||||||
Save & View | Saves a new record in the Controller database and continues to display that record. | |||||||||||
New | Displays empty (except for default values) Details for creating a new record. | |||||||||||
Update |
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Delete |
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Refresh | Refreshes any dynamic data displayed in the Details. | |||||||||||
Close | For pop-up view only; closes the pop-up view of this user. | |||||||||||
Tabs | This section identifies the tabs across the top of the User Details that provide access to additional information about the user. | |||||||||||
User Roles | Allows you to assign roles to this user. | |||||||||||
Member of Groups | Allows you to assign this user to one or more groups.
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Permissions | Allows you to assign permissions to this user. |
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Step 1 | From the Administration navigation pane, select Security > Groups. The Groups list displays a list of all currently defined groups. |
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Step 2 | Enter/select Details for a new group, using the field descriptions below as a guide.
To display more of the Details fields on the screen, you can either:
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Step 3 | Optionally, assign one or more roles to the group, assign members (users) to the group, assign other groups to this group, or assign permissions to this group. |
Step 4 | Click a Save button. The group is added to the database, and all buttons and tabs in the Group Details are enabled. |
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Users with the ops.admin role or the ops_user_admin role can control, via the Users and Groups#Control Control Navigation Visibility and Users and Groups#Navigation Navigation Visibility fields in the Users and Groups#Group Group Details for a Group, which entries in the Controller Navigator are visible to users in that Group.
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User in Multiple Groups | If a user belongs to multiple Groups, and for any of those Groups the Users and Groups#Control Control Navigation Visibility is not enabled, Navigator visibility for that user is not controlled. |
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User in Multiple Groups | If a user belongs to multiple Groups, and for all of those Groups navigation visibility has been deselected for one or more entries, the visible entries from all Groups will be merged. That is, if an entry is not visible to users in Group A, but the entry is visible to users in Group B, the entry will be visible to any user belonging to both Groups. |
Navigation Pane | If all entries in a folder of a navigation pane (for example, the Tasks folder in the Automation Center navigation pane) are not visible to a Group, that folder does not display for any user in that Group. |
Navigation Pane | If all entries in a navigation pane are not visible to a Group, that navigation pane does not display for any user in that Group. |
Automation Center Navigation Pane | If a Group does not have visibility to one or more entries in the configurable Automation Center navigation pane, those entries are not available for configuration for any user in that Group. |
Trigger Types / Task Types | If a Group does not have visibility to a specific Trigger type or Task type, that Trigger type or Task type does not display in the New drop-down menu on the All Triggers list or the All Tasks list for any user in that Group. |
Universal Task Types | Dynamically created Universal Task type entries are available for selection / deselection in the Users and Groups#Navigation Navigation Visibility field. |
User Roles | The role selections for any user override any navigation visibility selections for any Group in which that user is a member. |
User Roles | Navigation visibility selections for a Group do not apply to any users in the Group with the ops_admin role. |
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