{"id":516,"date":"2017-02-23T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2017-05-11T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:48:51","slug":"control-users-sharing-cradle-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/control-users-sharing-cradle-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Users’ Sharing of Cradle Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cradle is modular. Each module has a licence. Most of Cradle’s functionality is in the PDM (project data management) module which is free. Users can do 80% of their work for FREE. You can add new users at ZERO cost. You pay for the other modules’ licences. These licences are shared dynamically between all the logged-in users, moving to and from users as they work.<\/p>\n

If your Cradle system allows many simultaneous users, you may want to restrict which users can use those features controlled by licences that cost money. For example, your Cradle system may allow 25 concurrent users, but you may only have 5 REQ licences. You want to share these 5 licences between 10 of the 25 people, which means that there are 25 – 10 = 15 people who should never be able to use a REQ licence.<\/p>\n

Each user’s login account (called a ‘user profile’) contains a set of ‘Module Access Rights’. You can use these to optionally deny some users the ability to use any of the chargeable Cradle licences. Doing this ensures there are fewer concurrent users who can use these modules’ licences, so the licences are shared between fewer concurrent users, and so are more likely to be available to those users who need to use them.<\/p>\n

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Control Users Sharing of Cradle Modules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To do this:<\/h3>\n

1. Start WorkBench and login to your database as a user with RW access to the user profiles whose access is to be changed. Typically this means to login as the leader of a team (user in the team who has TEAM_LEADER privilege) or a user with ACCESS_BYPASS privilege such as MANAGER.
\n2. Select ‘User Setup’ from the ‘Project’ tab
\n3. Choose the user profile to be changed from the drop-down list
\n4. Select ‘Privileges’ and ‘Module Access Rights’
\n5. Clear the checkboxes for those modules that this user is not to access
\n6. Save the modified user profile<\/p>\n

Cradle will display an error message if a user tries to do anything that requires a module licence that they cannot use.<\/p>\n

We hope that this is helpful!<\/p>\n