On the User properties tab, which is present when you have selected a new or existing user in an application in the Application browser, you link individual users of this application to new or existing roles.

Click here for information on how to edit properties in general. And click here to read about how to manage objects in the tree view in the Application browser. On the current tab you'll find the following settings:

User name

This property must contain the name of a user of this application. This name must be exactly the same (case-sensitive) as this user's login name in Windows.

Password

You only have to fill in a password here if you use the user authentication method called "Adlib.PBK" (in which case the user must always log in to Collections with his or her user name and this password. The password doesn't need to be the same as this user's password in Windows.

Role

Each user must be assigned a role (a user may have only one role), for example: student, management, system manager, employee. You can enter a new role, or pick one from the drop-down list that displays the roles already present in this application.

See also

Security in Colletions

Users and roles