Roles

Owned by Robert Sikorski
Last updated: 14 Jul 2017 by Adam Rak (Deactivated)
4 min read

Earthlight uses Permissions to enable or disable access to the features and GUI elements. Sets of Permissions are called Roles. Because Users cannot be assigned individual permissions, you have to group permissions into aforementioned Roles and assign Roles to Users (or Groups).

Assigning Permissions to Roles

In order to create a Role please choose Add in the Roles management window.

This will display the dialog shown below.

Enter a name of the Role (this is mandatory) and Description (this is optional) and mark the check-boxes next to the permissions that you want to enable.
Click Apply when you have finished to save the Role.

If you want to change an existing Role, check the role name on the list and click Edit. This will execute Edit role dialog.

This dialog is almost an exact copy of the Create role dialog. As you can see the Role name text box is greyed out. That’s because you cannot change the name of an existing Role. You can change the role Description and set or clear Permissions.

Assigning Roles to Users

Roles are assigned to Users in Users and Groups window.

As you can see you only have to click on the user or group of users, click on the User roles field and pick from the list the role that you want to add.

Full list of permissions available in Earthlight

Map permissions:

  • Grab
  • Create map
  • Open any map
  • Save map
  • Open predefined map
  • Uses sessions
  • Save as image
  • Print

  • Use Ruler

  • Find address
  • Find in layer
  • Find nearest
  • Go to coordinates
  • Inspect
  • Clear inspection
  • Inspect settings
Edit permissions:

  • Grab
  • Mark & Move
  • Edit Nodes
  • Delete Node
  • Shift
  • Rotate
  • Reshape
  • Divide
  • Delete geometry
  • Merge
  • Slice
  • Buffer
  • Align

  • Add polygon
  • Add line
  • Add point
  • Add frame
  • Add rectangle
  • Add circle
  • Add disc
  • Clone
  • AutoClone
  • Finish
  • Undo
  • Redo

Context menu editing tools


  • Arc
  • Parallel
  • Perpendicular
  • Right Angle
Page layout permission:

  • Modify templates
Selection permissions:

  • Grab
  • Clear
  • Invert
  • Select By Layers
  • Show Statistics
  • Change mode (Replace/Add/Remove/Intersect)
  • Change affected layers
  • Change operator

  • Select by point
  • Select by polygon
  • Select by circle
  • Apply buffer
  • Select By Attributes
  • Copy selected records
  • Move selected records
  • Delete selected records
  • Explode records
Annotations permissions:

  • Grab
  • Add point
  • Add arrow
  • Add line
  • Add polygon
  • Add rectangle
  • Add disc
  • Add text
  • Select annotation
  • Delete annotation
  • Show preview
  • Show gallery
  • Change style

  • Line
  • Fill
  • Text
Administration permissions:

  • Users And Groups
  • Roles
  • Logs
  • Shares
  • File Explorer
  • Global User Settings
  • Resource Editor
  • Style Packs
  • Export INSPIRE Metadata
  • Export CSV metadata
  • Fill Geographic Metadata
  • Servers
  • Devices
  • Flare
  • Manage WMS servers
  • Manage WFS servers

  • Create layer
  • Create annotation layer
  • Create layer from existing table
  • Create layer from clipboard
  • Geocode layer
  • Modify layer
  • Export layer
  • Import layer
  • Delete layer
  • Show rendering profiler
  • Retrieve Incident
  • Show internal services
  • System information
  • Upload files
  • Set service message
Analyse permissions:

  • Grab
  • Density Map
  • Spatial merge
  • Aoristic chart
  • Height profiles
Table permissions:

  • Browse records
  • Enable Editing

  • Show Only Selection
  • Invert
  • Select ungeocoded
  • Clear selection
  • Select by text
  • Clipboard
  • Export
  • Field calculator
Aurora Creator permission:

  • Modify Aurora script
Form Designer permission:

  • Modify form
Routing permission:

  • Plan route
Header permissions:

  • Change password
  • Clear credentials
  • Logout
Key permissions:

  • Add existing layer
  • Add grid layer
  • Remove layer
  • Add group layer
  • Save layer

  • Reveal hidden layers
Layer Properties permissions:

  • General

  • Crs
  • Legend
  • Backdrop
  • Display query
  • Hyperlinks
  • Filter query
  • Dynamic Styling
  • Labels
  • Expressions
  • Schema
  • Advanced
  • Raster
  • Grid
  • Network
  • Speed Limits
Inspect Window permissions:

  • Show wrap panel
  • Go To
  • Zoom to
  • Locate
  • Export
  • Edit
  • Delete
  • Change inspected layers (Active/Selected/Visible)
Selection Window permissions:

  • Go to
  • Zoom to
  • Locate
  • Export
  • Edit
  • Delete
Advanced Privileges permission:
  • Corporate administrator
Metadata:

  • Metadata
Flows:

  • Run flows
  • Design flows
Window Layouts:

  • Switch to different layout
  • Modify current layout
  • Save current layout