Tag: skills

As Cradle is a multi-discipline product, there may be information in the PDB that is intended to be used only by nominated users. Skills are the mechanism that is used to restrict this information to those users who are intended to see it.

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Skills Based Access of Items

When not everything can be shared

Imagine you have a project and teams of people working on it. You can control who sees what by placing staff in different teams (for information watch this video about collaborative teams). You can provide skills based access to individual frames within the item. However, there maybe one type of item which only certain team members can see, maybe a Finance item. The solution is to set a skill for the item type. Ensure those who are allowed to view the item type have the skill.  For those assigned the required skill, all the other access controls still get applied, (CM status, security clearance and ownership).  For those without the skill, the item type disappears from existence, it is as if the project schema had not defined the item.

Project setup setting skills based item access
Skills Based Item Access
  1. Login to WorkBench as a user who can modify the schema
  2. Start Project Setup from the Project tab, set Options to User Settings and select the Skills tab
  3. Select New and define a new skill
  4. Set Options to Item Definitions and select the Item Types tab
  5. Select the item type to be controlled and choose the new skill from the Required skill: drop-down list
  6. Save the schema and close Project Setup
  7. From the Project tab, select User Setup and for each user who is to be able to see the item type, select that user, select Skills, add the new skill to the user’s user profile and save the profile

RO Skill Based Access Feature

New Cradle-7.2

Now imagine the scenario that you want team members to see an item type but you don’t want them to be able to change any aspect of it. The latest version of Cradle allows you to set Read-only access for these item types.

Skill based access levels for items
Skill Based Access Levels for Items
Related Items

To restrict access to categories alone, this article will help.

https://www.threesl.com/blog/skill-based-access-category-users/

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Release of Cradle-7.1.2

We are pleased to announce that we released Cradle-7.1.2 last month, with some useful new features and some fixes. We have sent announcement e-mails to all customers with active maintenance, and sent e-mails to the customers whose enhancements that have been added, and whose reported bugs have been fixed.

Some of the new features in this release are:

– Equipments in Physical Architecture Diagrams can be expanded to IDEF0 diagrams, as well as the other diagram types
– Faster processing of baseline operations to retire and reinstate items
– You can specify a date range for the change history entries to be shown in views
– A skill linked to an item type can provide RO access to all items of the type
– The External Command Interface includes new events for schema changes and operations on user profiles

If you upgrade to Cradle-7.1.2 anywhere, you must upgrade everywhere, the server and all clients.

Customers who purchased a single-user Cradle-7.1 product can also apply this new release.

See here https://youtu.be/bgiQQ0N8bV4 for a short summary of Cradle!