Assign Security Roles and Approver Permissions

Purpose: Use this document to assign security roles to current  DirectLine users and set up approver credentials for staff that approve surplus/disposal lists.

Audience: DirectLine administrators with permission to maintain user security roles.

Megamation support staff create new DirectLine users at the college's request. Use this email address to submit a request: [email protected]

Navigation: Administration / User Security / User Management

  1. On the DirectLine Menu screen, select the Administration drop down menu.
  2. From there, select User Security.
  3. Then select User Management.
Administration menu navigation screen

If you don't have the appropriate administrative rights, the following message will display:

You do not have sufficient rights warning message

If you do have sufficient administrative rights, a list of users will display:

  1. Highlight the user you want to change and select the EDIT button.
List of current users screen

There are four screens available for review and input.

  1. The first screen is the General tab. It contains the User Group, System Language, email addresses, etc.

Note: the checkbox, User has active profile is not needed for business office fixed asset users.  However, anyone using work order features must have this box checked.

General Information screen
  1. The second screen available is W/O Defaults.
Work Order Defaults screen
  1. The third screen available is User Options. This sets up user preferences for work order activity.
User Options screen
  1. The final screen HTML/Mobile is used for those colleges that have added mobile device features.
HTML/Mobile screen

Set up FAE Approver

This feature is used for supervisors that approve surplus and disposal lists. From the General tab:

  1. Select FAE-APPROVER from the User Group drop-down list.
FAE approver example
  1. Select OK to save your changes.

User Group Definitions

User Group Type
User Group Name
Description
Administration ADMIN Full access to all screens and all pages on those screens
Facilities (BLANK) This is the default user group type if this field has been left blank. Facilities users have view only permissions for the financial screens in the Building and Equipment records
Finance FAE Admin Full access to fixed asset related modules and screens, including administration. View only permissions for the facilities screens in the Building records
Finance FAE User Full access to all fixed asset related modules and screens, but not access to administration and no access to approvals
Finance FAE Approver View only access to all screens, plus access to transfer and disposal approvals. User must be set up as an approver as well. (Instructions provided in this user guide).

FAE Read Only Read only access to all FAE related screens

Users in the Finance group have read-only permissions for the Facilities and AMS tabs in the Building/Site entry screens.  Users in the Facilities group have read-only permissions on the Finance tab in the Building/Site entry screens.

Procedure complete.

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