Setting Permissions for Specific Objects

If you are connected to a SIMULIA Execution Engine, you can set access permission for specific objects in the Isight library.

Note: If all your object permissions will be the same for every object, you can set the object permission values prior to publishing. Using this method, all of your objects will have the correct permissions as soon as they are published. For more information, see Setting Default Object Permissions.

  1. From the View menu, select Library or click the Library button on the Design Gateway toolbar.

    The Isight Library appears.

  2. Locate the object for which you want to set permissions, and click Edit Permissions.

    The Object Access Control List dialog box showing the permissions for the selected object.

  3. Click Add to set a new permission.

    Note: You cannot edit an existing permission setting. Instead, you need to delete it and recreate it.

  4. In the Managed Name column, enter the name of the user or group whose permissions you are setting.

  5. Click in the Permissions columns, and select the type of permission:

    Option Description
    ALTER Select to give the user or group full access to the object, including editing the object’s permissions. The user or group can copy the object to the Isight library, publish new versions of the object to the Isight library, and delete any version of the object from the Isight library.
    MODIFY Select to give the user or group all the accessibility granted with the ALTER option, with the exception of editing the permissions.
    READ Select to allow the user or group to use the object only in their local Design Gateway. If the object is a model, its contents (e.g., components, simulation process flows, parameters) can be viewed and altered and the model itself can be executed, but no new versions of the model can be published to the library.
    NONE Select to give the user or group no access to the object. In addition, any model that references this object cannot be used.

  6. Click in the Represents column, and determine if the name specified in the Managed Name column represents an individual user or a predefined group:

    Option Description
    USER Select to specify a particular user name for the permission you are defining.
    GROUP Select to specify a group of users to share the permission you are defining, instead of creating a permission for each user.

  7. In the All other users list, set object permissions for all other users (except those explicitly defined). The options available are the same as those described in Step 5.

  8. Arrange the listed users, as desired.

    You can use the Up or Down buttons to move a user up or down in the list. The selected user’s settings move up or down one line. The order of the list is important because a user name may appear in one or more groups as well as by itself. Therefore, it is possible for a user to be assigned more than one permission for the same object. If a user has multiple permissions, Isight uses the permission closest to the top of the list to determine the user’s actual permission for the object.

    You can click Delete to remove a user name from the list.

  9. Click OK to save your changes and to return to the Isight library.