User Properties

User Properties

User  properties are configured when creating, editing or copying a user in a special dialog on several tabs. The availability of different tabs and parameters depends on the access you have towards the user. Two tabs are available in any case — General and Advanced. Some properties become uneditable if the user account is blocked.

General

This tab contains the basic properties like name, password, allowed activity, etc.


Name
User name must be between 4 and 50 characters (read more about the Input Rules).

Password
Password is required for each user. To ensure a high quality of password protection, it is recommended to adhere to the following rules when creating it:

  • the minimum password length is 4 characters;
  • use of uppercase and lowercase letters;
  • use number or symbols along with letters.

You have to enter the password twice (the second time is in the Confirm password field).

Host mask
The host mask can be applied to the user to restrict IP addresses from which this user can log on to the system (for example, to restrict access only to working computers). To set a mask, use the wildcard character *, for example, the host mask can be set like this: 212.0.13.*. You can indicate several masks separated by commas. The maximum number of symbols in this field is 1024. If no mask is set, the user can log in from any computer.

Creator
Select the creator from the dropdown list. User's creator can be any other user. Creator is important to build hierarchy of the access rights. The user inherits account and billing plan from the creator. The creator is assigned when the user is being created and cannot be changed afterwards.

Account
Here you can see to which account the user belongs to (if you have any access to this account). Account and creator cannot be changed.

Measurement system
Choose a measurement system which will be applied to the current user. This parameter is shown only upon creating a new user. For existing users, it can be changed by the converter. Moreover, users can change a measurement system by themselves in the monitoring system. To do so, it is necessary to summon the user settings dialog and choose a proper measurement system on the General Settings tab.

Can create items
This checkbox defines if the user can or cannot create units, users, accounts, resources, unit groups, routes, and retranslators.

Can change password
If disabled, the user cannot change their password.

Can send SMS
If disabled, the user cannot send SMS messages to drivers, units, and other users from gTrack main interface. 
 However, this option does not affect the execution of the commands via SMS channel.

Enabled
If disabled, the user cannot login to any interface of the system.

Can change settings
If disabled, the user cannot change their own settings (see User Settings), however, can see them.

 To edit most of these properties, you should have the Change flags for given user access right. Changing password requires also the Act as given useraccess right.

Access

 Access required: Manage user's access rights.

Here you give the user access rights to the objects that exist in the system: units, resources (accounts), unit groups, routes, and other users.

On the left, you select the objects. To quickly find a required object, use filters — choose object type in the dropdown list and set a name mask below. Objects that meet your request will be displayed in the list. Also, to facilitate a search, the list can be sorted alphabetically or by access rights. To use the sorting, click the corresponding button to the right of the dynamic filter.

The objects, to which the user already has any access, are highlighted in color. If there is no access, the background is transparent.

Select an object on the left and mark actions allowed to the user on the right. Find more information about the access rightshere.


Note that here you set the rights of a specific user to various objects of the system. However, the user, in turn, is also a system object and therefore can be accessed by other users. In other words, other users can obtain access rights toward this user. To set access to a user as a system object, open the properties dialog of some other user and choose Users in the dropdown filter.

Advanced

On this tab, you can activate the access to gTrack Mobile v1 for the user. Additionally, enter the access key.

Next, specify the e-mail address to which the user will receive notifications from the administration of the service.


These settings can be changed by users themselves — in the User Settings dialog.

 To edit these properties, the Edit not mentioned properties access right is required.

Custom Fields

 Access required: View custom fields — to view general custom fields; Manage custom fields — to create, edit, and delete general custom fields for the given unit; View admin fields — administrative custom fields; Manage admin fields — to create, edit, and delete administrative fields.

On this tab, you can add any information about the user, whether it is home address or working shift. In the left field enter the name of the field, in the right field its value. To save a custom field, click the Add button, to delete — Delete. At the end of the dialog edit, click OK in the lower right corner. The next time you open the dialog, the fields will be automatically sorted alphabetically. Part of the fields can be marked as administrative (checkbox in front of the field), i.e. they will only be visible to users with the appropriate rights.


Logs

 Access rights required: Query reports or messages.

In the log, you can see when a user logged in or out of the system, what service he used, from which host. Specify the time period and click the Show button.


 Note.
Besides the log, user activity can be controlled in different reports that are available in the main interface of gTrack.
Read more about the application of users here.

Manage Applications

Authorized Applications

This tab contains the list of applications that have any access to your account and data. To the left, there is an application name, to the right, you can see the access rights that the application has towards your data or account. To block an access for the application, it is necessary to delete the corresponding application from the list.

Mobile Notifications

This tab contains the list of applications which are allowed to send notifications to your mobile devices. To the left, there is an application name, to the right, you can see a device type. To block mobile notifications sending, it is necessary to delete the corresponding application from the list.




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