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 register a new role, perform the following:

1. At the end of the list of system roles, click the Create link.
   
   The new role is added in the system, with its properties displayed on the right side.
2. Enter a name for the role in the corresponding field (1).
   

3. Select priority of PTZ cameras control for users with the current role (2). 

4. Select priority of map access for users with the current role (3). 

   Access level	Description
   View only	You can only view maps
   View/move/scale	You can move and scale maps
   Full access	All options available

5. Set access permissions for C-Werk features (4). Access can be restricted to such features as:
   
   1. Adding a camera to a layout in live video mode.
   2. Adding and editing presets for PTZ cameras.

   3. Context menu of a video camera in a viewing tile.

   4. Editing layouts.
   5. Archive search.
   6. Access to the Web server.
   7. Alarms Management.

   8. User comments for recorded video.

   9. Minimizing the Client to the system tray.
   10. Viewing the system log.
   11. Managing an C-Werk domain.
   12. Exporting snapshots and video recordings.

   13. Displaying captions.

6. Configure access rights to the Settings tabs and to system error messages (5).

   Error messages are displayed in real time in the Layouts interface

7. Set access permissions for Layouts in C-Werk (6).

8. If you need to grant the users in this role permissions only for a certain period of time, select a Time schedule (7) from the list. These users will not be able to use their permissions outside of the selected time schedule.

9. Configure access to video wall management by setting permissions for each Server on an C-Werk domain (8). A user who has management permissions for the video walls of a particular Server can manage the video walls of any Client connected to that Server.

10. Set permissions for access to hardware and archives on an C-Werk domain (9).

    Device	Access permissions	Description
    Video camera	No access	You cannot access the device.
    	Live in Armed mode	You can view video from the camera only when the camera is armed.
    	Live	You can live video from the camera. Other functions and device configuration are not available.
    	Live/Archive	You can view live and recorded video from the camera. You cannot arm/disarm/configure the camera.
    	Live/Archive/Control	All functions available. You cannot configure the device.
    	Live/Archive/Control/Configure	All functions and settings available.
    Microphone	No access	The user is unable to listen to live sound from the video camera. The user is unable to listen to sound recordings from the archive.
    	Live Audio	The user is able to listen to live sound from the video camera (the microphone must be turned on). The user is unable to listen to sound recordings from the archive.
    	Live Audio and Archive	All functions are accessible
    Telemetry	No access	The user cannot control pan/tilt/zoom
    	Control	The user can control pan/tilt/zoom
    Archive	No access	Access is not provided to this archive
    	Full access	Archive is available for all functions

    You can configure group rights for accessing devices and archives of a particular Server. To do so, select an access level for the Server object. Depending on the level that is chosen, particular access levels are automatically configured for the devices and archives of the relevant Server (see table).

    Server access level	Device/archive	Device/archive access level
    Custom	-	Access levels for devices and archives are set manually
    No access	-	No access to devices and archives
    Live in Armed Mode	Video camera	You can view armed cameras
    	Microphone	Live Audio
    	Telemetry	Control
    	Archive	Full access
    Live	Video camera	You can view live video
    	Microphone	Live Audio
    	Telemetry	Control
    	Archive	Full access
    Live/Archive	Video camera	You can view live and recorded video
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	Telemetry	Control
    	Archive	Full access
    Live/Archive/Control	Video camera	All functions. Settings not available.
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	Telemetry	Control
    	Archive	Full access
    Live/Archive/Control/Configure	Video camera	All functions + settings available.
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	Telemetry	Control
    	Archive	Full access

11. Click the Apply button to save the role.

The new role has now been created.

To delete a role, perform the following:

1. Select the role to delete.

2. Click Delete.


   You cannot delete a role if the user through which you logged into the system belongs to that role.

3. Click the Apply button.

The role has now been deleted. All users under this role will also be deleted.