Configuring Users and Groups

Groups and their users for the basis for user management. A group has one or more users; a user can belong to multiple groups. The permissions of the visualization elements are always assigned to a group.

Adding groups

  1. Click the Visualization Manager object in the device tree.

  2. Select the User management tab.

  3. Click in the last line of the list.

    In this line, the field of the Group name column is still empty.

  4. Click in the field of the Group name column and specify the name for the new group.

  5. If necessary, activate the options Automatic logout and Permission to change user data.

Adding users and assigning groups

  1. Select the tab User management ‣ User.

  2. Click in the last empty line of the list.

  3. Specify the Login name.

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    CODESYS applies the Login name as Password.

  4. If you want to change the password, click in the Password field of the user.

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    The Change password dialog box opens.

  5. Click the User group field.

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    The User groups the user belongs to dialog box opens.

  6. Activate the Assigned option for the groups that the user should be long to and click OK to confirm.

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    In the User group field, all groups are listed that the new user belongs to.

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