Project Security

InduSoft Web Studio includes a project security system that manages how users and user groups can access a project, during both development and runtime.

  • About security modes
    In addition to managing users and groups locally, entirely within a single project, you can also get pre-defined users and groups from other IWS projects or from an LDAP-compliant domain server.
  • About security access levels
    Almost every item in a project — screen object, object animation, project screen, task worksheet — can be assigned a security access level. That access level determines which user groups can edit the item during development and/or use the item during runtime.
  • Using the security system configuration wizard
    The security system configuration wizard helps you through the steps of configuring the project security system.
  • Configuring server settings for security modes
    If you set your project’s security mode to either Distributed – Client or Domain (LDAP), then you must also configure server settings.
  • Group Account dialog
    The Group Account dialog is used to create and delete user groups, as well as to configure the access privileges for a selected group.
  • Creating and configuring users
    To create and maintain accounts for project users, click the Users button on the Security System dialog. (Alternately, to configure a user, open the Users folder located in the Security folder.)
  • Security System dialog
    The main Security System dialog is used to manage the project security system after it has been initially configured.
  • Backing up the security system configuration
    You can back up your project’s security system configuration by exporting it to a file. You can also import a configuration either from a file or from another runtime project.
  • Logging on/off
    If the project security system has been enabled and the default “Guest” user’s privileges have been restricted, then you must log on to fully use the development application and/or the runtime project.
  • Blocking or unblocking a user
    An individual user in the project security system may be completely blocked from accessing the project, and a blocked may subsequently be unblocked.
  • Password-protecting screens, symbols, and worksheets
    Screens, symbols, and worksheets in the Project Explorer can be password-protected. You can assign individual passwords to each file, or you can assign a single password to all files in the project
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Project Security