The supervisor can grant supervisor privileges to a database area administrator. The supervisor gives the database area administrator the right to manage one or multiple databases.
The administration right for a database makes it possible to grant or revoke access rights to documents for other PROXESS users. Additionally, area administrators can create passwords and disable them and block and unblock user accounts for users with access rights to “their” database.
As the area administrator for a database, only the databases that the supervisor has unlocked will be displayed. Area administrators can have all existing user and group memberships displayed but can only make changes to a limited extent. Database area administrators can grant users and groups access rights to the database they manage only if these users and groups don’t have any access rights to other databases which the administrators don’t also manage. Likewise, only users who have no access rights to other databases can be added to a group with an access right to the managed database. If database area administrators manage multiple databases, they can freely assign users and groups within their administration area and grant access rights.
The purpose of this rule is to prevent area administrators from misusing their authorizations and, by changing passwords, get access to an archive with another user login to which they have not received access. At the same time, this is intended to relieve supervisors of daily routine tasks in user management, such as “Reset password”.
In addition to basic access to an archive database, database area administrators are responsible for granting the corresponding document type rights of one or more databases within their administration area.
Also see:
User management—concept and overview
Access rights—concept and overview