Documentation for C-Werk 2.0.
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A role is intended for assigning a group of users individual rights and permissions for administration, management and/or monitoring of individual components of C-Werk.
To create a new role, do the following:
- At the end of the list of system roles, click the Create link. The new role will be added to the system, with its properties displayed on the right side.
Configure the access permissions.
Parameters Access level Description Basic Name − Enter a name for the role (1) Map control Select the access level to the maps for users with the current role (2) Map management No access Users cannot view maps View only Users can only view maps View/move/scale Users can views, move, and scale maps Full access All operations with map are available Other
Archive depth viewing restriction − If you need to limit the access of users of a given role to all system archives, you can specify the archive depth limit in hours (3). If no limit is set, users may view all video recordings Access to Functions Set access permissions to C-Werk functions (4) Access to confidential comments Yes Add and view confidential comments No Access to Search in archive mode
Yes Archive search (see Video surveillance in archive search mode)
No Adding camera to layout in monitoring mode Yes Add a camera to a layout in live video mode (see Adding cameras to cells)
No Adding/editing presets Yes Add and edit presets for PTZ cameras (see Selecting a preset)
No Alarms processing − Alarms management (see Video surveillance in alarm management mode)
No access Users have no access to alarm videos View only Users can view alarm videos, but they can't assess alarms Full access Users can view alarm videos and assess alarms Allow comments in archive − Create comments in the archive (see Operator comments) and protected records (see Protecting video footage from FIFO overwriting) No access No comments allowed Create Add comments to the archive Create/Protect Add comments to the archive, create protected records Create/Protect/ Edit and delete Add comments to the archive, create and edit protected records Allow to delete records Yes Remove video recordings from the archive (see Delete a part of an archive)
No Allow unprotected export Yes Export frames and video recordings without password protection (see Frame export, Standard video recordings export). Set No to require setting a password when exporting (see Exporting frames and video recordings)
No Export Yes Export frames and video recordings (see Exporting frames and video recordings)
No Layouts editing Yes Edit layouts (see Editing layouts)
No Minimize to taskbar Yes Minimize the Client to the tray (see Interface of the C-Werk Software Package)
No Operating domain Yes Manage Domain (see Domain operations)
No Permissions to access via WebUI Yes Access to the Web-Server (see Working with C-Werk through the Web-Client)
No Show captions Yes Display captions (see Viewing titles from POS terminals)
No Show faces Yes Showing faces (see Masking faces)
No System log Yes View the system log (see The System Log)
No Unlock camera menu button Yes Context menu of a video camera (see Viewing Tile Context Menu)
No View masked video Yes View masked video (see Setting up privacy masking in Video Footage, Specific settings for People masking detection tool)
No Access to Interfaces Configure the access permissions to the interfaces (5) Group panels Yes Configure the access permissions to video camera groups in the Hardware tab and to the video camera groups in the Layouts interface
No Layouts tab Yes Configure the access permissions to the Layouts tab. This parameter applies to both the Client and the Web-Client (see Web-Client GUI)
No Objects panel and Camera search panel Yes Configure the access permissions to the Objects panel (see Objects Panel) and the Camera search panel (see Camera Search Panel)
No Access to Settings Archive settings Yes Configure the access permissions to the Settings tabs and to the system error messages (6).
Attention!
- Error messages are displayed in real-time in the Layouts interface.
- If you set the User Permission settings parameter to Device access rights only, all users of the given role will have the rights to change only the access rights to the connected devices.
- If the Programming setup is not available for the user role, the user will not be able to use the created macros until the appropriate rights are granted.
- Critical error messages in the system, such as "Insufficient network bandwidth", are displayed regardless of the Show error messages setting.
No Detection settings Yes No Device settings Yes No Options settings Yes No Programming settings Yes No Show error messages Yes No User Permission settings Yes No Additional Comment − Specify additional information about the user, if necessary (7). If no value is specified, users can view all videos
Supervisor confirmation Set the parameters to apply the four-eye principle (8) Supervisor for acccess to export − If the administrator has to confirm the launch of export for users of this role (see Exporting frames and video recordings), select the corresponding role in the list
Supervisor for authorization in client − If the administrator has to confirm the login of users of this role (see Starting C-Werk Client), select the corresponding role in the list
Time schedule management Time schedule − If you need to grant the users in this role permissions only for a certain period of time, select a time schedule (9) from the list. These users will not be able to use their permissions outside of the selected time schedule
Video walls management Server Yes Configure the rights to manage the connected Clients' monitors by setting permissions for each Server on Domain (10). A user who has management permissions for the monitors of a particular Server can manage monitors of any Client connected to that Server
No On the Groups tab, configure the default permissions (11, see Configuring user permissions).
Note
When you create a new role, you cannot go to another tab until the role is saved. If you change any access permissions on any tab, you cannot go to another tab until the settings are saved.
On the Groups tab, configure the group permissions if there are camera groups (12, see Configuring video camera groups).
If necessary, configure the access permissions to a specific device (the Devices tab, 13).
To do this, select the access level for the individual device (see Configuring user permissions).
You can specify the access level to an individual camera and extend it to other cameras. To do it, do the following:
- Select the access level to a camera from a drop-down list on the Devices tab.
Click the
button and select the cameras to which you want to specify the same access level.
Click the Apply button.
As a result, the the specified access level will be extended to the selected cameras.
To quickly select multiple cameras, hold down the Shift key, select the first and last camera to which you want to specify the same access level. The checkbox will set for all selected cameras when you select any of them.Note
Similarly, you can extend the access levels to microphones, PTZ devices and archives.
Configure the access permissions to domain archives. You can set the permissions to all archives (14) or to a specific archive (15).
Set the possibility to manually run all or some macros (see Configuring macros and counters) from the Layouts interface by selecting the corresponding access level.
Attention!
Users outside the admin group can create macros, if they have the permissions to create them. They cannot use them until they have the permissions to use them.
Click the Apply button to save the role.
The new role has been created.
You can copy a role. To do it, do the following:
- Select the role to copy.
- Click the Create button.
A new role will be created with the same parameters as the selected role.
Note
To create an empty user role with no parameters specified, select the Roles common group, and click the Create button.
To delete a role, do the following:
Select the role to delete.
Click the Delete button.
Note
You cannot delete a role if the user who is logged in belongs to that role.
- Click the Apply button to save the changes.
The role has been deleted. All users who belong to this role will also be deleted.
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