Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 180)

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Create FactoryTalk Security user groups
The use of user groups is optional but recommended. Groups allow you to set up security
access once for the entire group, rather than individually for members of the group. You
can still set up separate permissions for individual members of the group.
FactoryTalk Security allows you to use groups that have already been set up in Windows.
These are called Windows-linked groups. The link symbol in the Explorer window
indicates that a group is a Windows-linked group.
FactoryTalk Security comes with an Administrators group already set up. The local
computers Windows Administrators group is automatically added to this FactoryTalk
Security group. To start with, members of this group have full security access to
FactoryTalk Security, and therefore have full access to your applications.
To set up user groups
1. In the System folder, right-click User Groups, and then select New User Group or
New Windows-Linked User Group.
2. Add user groups. You can add members to the groups now or later. For details, see
Help.
3. To add members to the group later, right-click the group and then select Properties.
For details, see Help.
To add user accounts to the group
1. In the System/Users and Groups/User Groups folder, double-click a user group.
2. In the Properties dialog box, click Add.
3. In the Select User or Group dialog box, select the user accounts you wan to be
members of the group, and then click OK.
Work with the Runtime Security editor
Use the Runtime Security editor to:
Setting up groups saves time. You can add all the users of an application to a single group in
FactoryTalk Security, then add the group to the FactoryTalk View Runtime Security editor in
one step, which is much quicker than adding the users one by one.
To ensure that you are never locked out of FactoryTalk Directory we recommend that you assign
more than one user to the Administrators group. That way if one user is locked out, you can use
the other one to log in.