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Supervisor 2.3 and up

To access the User Management screen, the user needs to be granted the Administrator permission in Supervisor. Or you can log in as ayfie Supervisor Administrator User.

The User Management screen will display all registered users in the Authority Service. The user table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers and searched using the Search User field in the top right corner.

Additional users are displayed across the pages shown under the table. The number of users displayed on each page can be changed by using the Number of rows drop-down next to the search box.

There are two actions available under the Actions menu denoted by the ellipses ... on each user in the table:

  1. Change Permissions: Presents a list of available permissions to add or remove from a user
  2. Revoke Permissions: Deletes the user from the Supervisor User Management table. 

The permission of the supervisor_admin cannot be changed. 

Add a new user

New users need to log in to Supervisor to create a user record in the ayfie Authority Service. When logging in for the first time the user will not have any permissions and will be met with a prompt to contact an administrator to provide them access. When they have done so, an administrator can then assign permissions to them.

  1. Ask the user to log in to Supervisor
  2. The user, if no permissions have been set, will be prompted with a message to contact an administrator to define permissions
  3. The Supervisor Administrator or an user with the Administrator permission can now select a user from the list to grant permissions. At least one permission much be selected.

The available permissions are:

  • View Report
  • Create Report
  • Delete Report
  • Export Report
  • Schedule
  • Administrator
  • Notification

Supervisor 1.0 to 2.2 SR1

To access the User Management screen, the user needs to be granted the Administrator permission in Supervisor. In Supervisor 2.2 SR1 and earlier releases, the local administrators on the Locator server are also administrators in Supervisor.

The User Management screen will display all of the users with access to Supervisor. The user table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers and searched using the Search User field in the top right corner.

Additional users are displayed across the pages shown under the table. The number of users displayed on each page can be changed by using the Number of rows drop-down next to the search box.

There are two actions available under the Actions menu denoted by the ellipses ... on each user in the table:

  1. Delete: Deletes the user from the Supervisor User Management table. 
  2. Change Permissions: Presents a list of available permissions to add or remove from a user

Add a new user

  1. Click the + icon
  2. Choose the Active Directory field to search. Available fields are: User Principle Name (UPN), Legacy Username,  Last Name, First Name, Email, Display Name, All Fields, All Usernames, All Names
  3. Enter in your search criteria and click Search
  4. A table of all users matching the search criteria is displayed. Click a user to grant permissions. At least 1 permission much be selected.
  5. The new user will appear in the User Management table with their configured permissions.

Note that a user who has been given Administrator permissions cannot change his/hers own user rights. Permissions for local admins cannot be changed nor can local admins be deleted from the table.

The available permissions are:

  • View Report
  • Create Report
  • Delete Report
  • Export Report
  • Schedule
  • Administrator



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