• Introduction
• Create or Modify a Channel Group
• Limit user access to one or more Channel Groups
• Create roles and choose permissions
• Assign Users to Roles
• Channel Group Permissions summary

Introduction

Permissions and notification rules can be managed more effectively using groups of channels.

Use Channel Groups to organize your channels, very useful when you have a large number of channels.

• Click Add Channel Group to create a new group
• Click Edit to modify a group, add/remove channels or rename
• Click Remove to delete a group
• Click the drop-down arrow to show the channels in a group

So how exactly can I organize things with Channel Groups?

• Limit user access to one or more Channel Groups, using Roles
• Define email rules for a Channel Group, using Email Notification
• Check the Channel Group Permissions summary

A useful trick – use dashboard tooltips to see the groups for a channel:

As you can see IN: admissions HL7 to DB is included in all three groups.

Create or Modify a Channel Group [top]

Manage channel groups using this screen.

To Create a new Channel Group:

• Enter the Name and Description.
• Select the Channels to include in the group.
  • The single arrow moves one or more selected channels.
  • The double arrow moves all channels.
• Press the Add Group button.

To Modify an existing Channel Group:

• Modify Name, Description or Included Channels.
• Press the Save Changes Button.

A useful trick – use the search box to filter the channel list:

You can also use regular expressions – exactly the same as filtering channels in the Dashboard (point 7).

Limit user access to one or more Channel Groups [top]

Channel groups are useful for controlling which users have permissions to stop and start and edit channels.

We want to give users the following access:

Role	Channel Groups	View Channels(default)	Edit Settings	Start/Stop Channels	View Logs	Export Logs	Use Translator IDE
System Administrators	All Channels	X	X	X	X	X	X
Helpdesk	All Channels	X	X	X	X	X
Foxton Administrators	Foxton General	X	X	X	X	X
Foxton Users	Foxton General	X

User Name	Role	Description
sysadmin	System Administrators	Administrator for all hospitals
help desk	Helpdesk	Generic helpdesk user
dgrady	Helpdesk	Help desk operator
foxadmin	Foxton Administrator	Generic Administrator for Foxton General Hospital
wmarcus	Foxton Administrator	Administrator for Foxton General Hospital – Chief of Staff
foxuser	Foxton Users	Generic Foxton user
smeredith	Foxton Users	Nurse

This is a two step process:

• Create Roles and choose permissions.
• Assign Users to the Roles.

The Roles should look now like this:

Create roles and choose permissions [top]

Now we will create the Roles and assign the permissions listed in the table.

Role	Channel Groups	ViewChannels(default)	Edit Settings	Start/Stop Channels	View Logs	Export Logs	Use Translator IDE
System Administrators	All Channels	X	X	X	X	X	X
Helpdesk	All Channels	X	X	X	X	X
Foxton Administrators	Foxton General	X	X	X	X	X
Foxton Users	Foxton General	X

Click Add Role.

Enter Name and Description and select the All Channels group.

Grant full access and click Add Role.

You should see this screen with the confirmation message.

Role	Channel Groups	View Channels(default)	Edit Settings	Start/Stop Channels	View Logs	Export Logs	Use Translator IDE
System Administrators	All Channels	X	X	X	X	X	X
Helpdesk	All Channels	X	X	X	X	X
Foxton Administrators	Foxton General	X	X	X	X	X
Foxton Users	Foxton General	X

Use the same process to create the other Roles.

The Foxton Users group is a little different.

No permissions are selected, this means that users are only allowed to View channels.

The Roles should now look like this:

Assign Users to Roles [top]

We need to create these Users and assign them to Roles we created previously.

User Name	Role	Description
sysadmin	System Administrators	Administrator for all hospitals
help desk	Helpdesk	Generic helpdesk user
dgrady	Helpdesk	Help desk operator
foxadmin	Foxton Administrator	Generic Administrator for Foxton General Hospital
wmarcus	Foxton Administrator	Administrator for Foxton General Hospital – Chief of Staff
foxuser	Foxton Users	Generic Foxton user
smeredith	Foxton Users	Nurse

Click Add User for System Administrators.

Select Create a New User.

Enter the User Name, Password , and add the System Administrators role, then Click Add User.

Create the remaining Users and add them to their Roles in the same way.

User Name	Role	Description
sysadmin	System Administrators	Administrator for all hospitals
help desk	Helpdesk	Generic helpdesk user
dgrady	Helpdesk	Help desk operator
foxadmin	Foxton Administrator	Generic Administrator for Foxton General Hospital
wmarcus	Foxton Administrator	Administrator for Foxton General Hospital – Chief of Staff
foxuser	Foxton Users	Generic Foxton user
smeredith	Foxton Users	Nurse

The Roles should look like this:

Channel Group Permissions summary [top]

This page shows use the Channel Group Permissions to apply commonly required levels of access. The rights granted only apply to channels that the user can see from their assigned Channel Groups.

Access granted by single permissions:

Permission	Basic Tasks	Edit Settings	Start/Stop Channels	View Logs	Export Logs	Use Translator IDE
None	X
View Logs	X			X
Export Logs	X	X			X
Edit	X
Translator IDE	X					X
Start/Stop	X		X

“Extra” access granted by combined permissions:

Permissions	Mark/Unmark errors in the logs	Export log messages to the Iguana Editor
Edit + View Logs	X
Edit + View Logs + Export Logs	X	X