Maxwell Setting User Rights for a Large Company
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Careful attention has been paid to the arrangement of rights, privileges and security for users in Maxwell.
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Recommendations
In a large company with several strata of employees, it usually becomes necessary for one person to act as administrator of the Maxwell account, while other people (for example, press operators) need access to the tracks and measurement data as part of their daily operation.
Procedure
We recommend the following for large companies with several users:
- Create a company account
- Setup your employees as "contacts" of that account so that they can all access the company tracks and measurements. CHROMiX administers the creation of passwords for "contact" accounts. Contact CHROMiX to assign passwords to these employee accounts.
- Create a separate account that will have proxy access to the company account as the administrator.
This way, the administrator will have access to everything in the company account, and all the employees (contacts) can see what they need to see, but they won't have access to the administrator's personal account or global company access.
Account Types
Maxwell offers several layers of accounts which are intended to provide differing levels of access to information. Here is a summary of the more important account types:
Company
This is intended as a "master" account under which several individual account can belong.
Individual
Individual users can sign into Maxwell and see:
- Information relating to anything that they have created (ie: devices, tracks, etc.)
- Information that CHROMiX has specifically designated for them to see.
Note that every object in Maxwell has both view security and edit security. So the ability to view and change any data can be turned on and off for every object. By default any user can view and edit that which they have created. CHROMiX can change these rights and privileges if requested.
Public user
Anyone can browse to the Maxwell website and view the information in the demo accounts. This "public" user can access very detailed information on these demo accounts much as a normal user does in a private account.