Remote Website Roles

Question

Here's my current thoughts on roles for the Cirrus website.   I want to get some feedback on whether you think this would be sufficient.   I'm trying for a minimalist approach on roles so we can do more cool stuff with the website.  For the sake of the roles discussion, let's assume for now that we're talking about a view-only website.

Issues or concerns with this approach?

Role Name

Capabilities

Web Viewer

·         Users granted this role can login to the website and view any report that is displayed in the Cirrus website.

·         The user is NOT be able to view entire configurations and jobs

Privileged Web Viewer

·         Users granted this role can do everything that Web Viewer can do +

·         User can view entire configurations and jobs

·         This user is NOT able to access Admin area

Admin Web

·         Everything that Privileged Web Viewer can do +

·         User can access the Admin area for configuring the website settings.

chris.lapoint · Answer

In the future, we'll definitely be looking at areas where we could unify access models.   However, the first priority is get a Cirrus standalone website in place with its own access rights (as not all our customers own both products) with some Orion integration.

So speaking of Orion integration, I've created a separate thread for ideas on Cirrus-Orion integration here:

jonchill · Answer

Will this functionality also be part of Orion so we have a single user interface and could the privilages be based on an Orion user, so for instance an Orion admin would get Cirrus Admin rights and any other user would get either web or privileged rights?

Thanks

Jon

SamuelB · Answer

Yes, I envision (for the future) the ability to create a custom role named whatever, "ConsultantAccess" for instance. The theoretical responsibilities would be the ones you stated as well as "View Configs", "View Jobs", "Find Address", "Schedule Jobs", "Edit Configs", for example, that you could check off to give custom permissions. I know you said view only for now, but these are just examples.