Setting up a User Management

Note

This concerns a user management for a CODESYS project file. Visualizations and devices can have their own user management.

The following guide describes how you can adapt the user management for the first time in a project. It deals with the definition of a user and a group to which he belongs.

Requirement: the project for which the user management is to be set up is opened. There is no adapted user configuration yet.

  1. Select Project Settings ‣ Users and Groups and then the Users tab. The user Owner is already created by default.

  2. Click on Add.

    ⇒ The dialog box Add User appears.

  3. Enter a login name, for example ‘Dev1’, and a password. Leave the option Activated activated. Click on OK.

    ⇒ On creating a group for the first time, CODESYS now requests you to authenticate yourself to perform this action.

    In this case, enter ‘Owner’ as the current user. Do not enter a password, just click on OK.

    The user Dev1 appears in the list and is automatically a member of the group 'Everyone'.

  4. Change to the tab Groups, in order to add the user to a new group.

    ⇒ The groups Everyone and Owner have already been created.

  5. Click on Add in order to open the dialog box Add Group.

  6. Specify at least one name for the new group, for example ‘Developers’. Activate the checkbox next to the entry User ‘Dev1’ in the field Members. Click on OK.

    ⇒ The group Developers now appears with has user member 'Dev1'.

  7. Switch to the Users tab.

    ⇒ The user Dev1 now appears as a member of the groups ‘Everyone’ and ‘Developers’.

Note

You can take over the user management configuration from another project by using the Export/Import functions in the dialog box Project Settings, category Users and Groups.

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