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1. Show users from
   
   This section allows you to control what type of users will be displayed on the users list (section 2). You can choose any group as well as all users.
2. Users list
   The second section shows the full list of all users or users that belong to group selected in Show users from section. By selecting any user you can see a list (section 4) of roles that he/she has and groups that he/she belongs to.
3. Option list
   The last section contains a set of options which allows you to add/delete/edit a user account. You can also add/remove a user from a group and modify the user assigned roles. Changing name/password is also available in this section. This section contains 6 options:
   • Add 
     This option allows you to add a new Earthlight user.
   • Delete
     Deletes a selected user.
   • Edit
     This button allows you to edit a selected user account. You can edit user detailed information, change password or Inheritable user settings. You can also modify the user assigned roles. More detailed description of Edit User tool can be found in further part of this documentation.
     
   • Change password of the selected user account. Please enter a new password and click OK button to confirm it.
     
     Rename a user name of the selected account. Please enter a new user name and click OK button to confirm it.
     
     

4. User roles list and User groups list

   By selecting any user on User list, you can see a list of roles that he/she has and groups that he/she belongs to. 

   • User Roles
     
     This button allows to add or remove a role to selected user with just 2 mouse clicks.

     Info
     You can create new roles or edit the existing one by using Roles tool. For more information please visit: Roles

     
     

   • User Groups
     
     The User Groups field allows to add or remove selected user from a group with just 2 mouse clicks.

Groups

The second main tab allows to add/delete/modify user groups. Users are allocated to groups which allow group permissions, views, etc. to be created. E.g.: departmental groups can view different maps. The Group tab contains 3 sections:

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1. User details
   First section allows you to enter/edit the following information details of the user:
   • Login (required)
     This is a username login. He/she will require it while trying to access Earthlight system.
   • Full name (required)
     This is an additional information about the user. It is displayed in the user list.
   • Telephone (optional)
     This field allows you to enter a contact number to a person who owns the account.
   • E-mail (optional)
     This field allows you to enter an E-mail address to a person who owns the account.

2. Change password
   This option allows you to change a user password. Please enter a new password and click OK button to confirm it.
    

   
   

   Info
   Aurora user should have no password (empty password).

   
   

3. Change inheritable settings
   
   

   Inheritable settings allows you to change some (or even all) settings for selected user or group. Inheritable User Settings window look similar to a Global User Settings. To better understand the usability of Inheritable User Settings please look at the settings inheritance hierarchy below:

   Global user settings

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   Group settings

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   User settings

   When a user is logging into system – Earthlight settings loading system takes all settings from the Global User Settings. Next it is checking all Inheritable Group settings and overwrites the settings that are set for a group to which a logged person belong. As a final step it is checking all Inheritable User Settings and again it overwrites the settings that are set for individual user. In other words all settings that aren’t set for User or Group will be taken from the Global User Settings.

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1. Name/Description
   The first section allows you to set a name for the group. You can also enter a description of the created group. The description is optional.

2. Roles
   The various roles allow different functions/permissions to be applied to the individual users or groups. E.g. Viewer only allows read access, print etc. and no editing capabilities. The field allows to add or remove role from a group with just 2 mouse clicks.
   
   To assign a role to selected user/group please select the role from the list. The role will be marked with orange colour. You can also remove assigned role by deselecting it or clicking small 'x' symbol.

   Info
   You can create new roles or edit the existing one by using Roles tool. For more information please visit: Roles

   
   

3. Group users
   
   This section allows you to add or remove a user from the group. To add a user to the group please tick its checkbox. You can also remove a user from the group. To do so, please unselect the checkbox near its name.
   You can also use search field on the top, to filter users and to find a one.
4. Settings inheritance order
   
   In this section, you can control an inheritance order for the group settings. Settings are applied in ascending order i.e. first all settings with order = 1, then with order = 2, etc. If two or more groups have the same order number and are assigned to the same user, then they are applied in an alphabetical order. User  User settings are always applied at the end, effectively overriding any group settings.
   

   Groups have own inheritance setting order hierarchy from 1 to 9, where 1 – less important and 9 – most important order number. For example: user 'StatMap' has three groups with different inheritance order: 1, 2 and 9 respectively. Settings are applied in ascending order, in other words, settings from group with inheritance order = 1 is overridden by settings from group with inheritance order = 2 and then it is overridden by a group with inheritance order = 9. In this case, group with inheritance order = 9 overrides all previous group settings.

5. Group inheritable settings
   
   Inheritable settings allows you to change some (or even all) settings for selected user or group. Inheritable User Settings window look similar to a Global User Settings. To better understand the usability of Inheritable User Settings please look at the settings inheritance hierarchy below:

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Global user settings

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Group settings

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When a user is logging into system – Earthlight settings loading system takes all settings from the Global User Settings. Next it is checking all Inheritable Group settings and overwrites the settings that are set for a group to which a logged person belong. As a final step it is checking all Inheritable User Settings and again it overwrites the settings that are set for individual user. In other words all settings that aren’t set for User or Group will be taken from the Global User Settings.

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