local user favourites or preferences

[fararooy]

Hi all

Using project browser in a multi-user access database, all users are taken to a default project location.

How can a specific user:
a) Set-up its own favourite or default project browser starting position?
b) Customise favourites in terms of even diagram properties, e.g. rather than A4/Portrait, all new diagrams are created in A3/Landscape size/layout?

Thanks, Saeed

[Eve]

a) Enable security. Users can then select their own default diagram.
b) Not available. These settings are common to all users.

[fararooy]

Hi thanks for the reply. To follow-up:

1. How do we enable security please?  In its absence, does it mean that every user can change any element or data without restrictions?

2. When we open the project browser, it open a particular location (model/package) and/or diagram. Where is this default location for the project stored? How can this be changed?

Saeed

[Nabil]

Hello Saeed
1
Configure Menu manage security enable security
Enter credentials it can be found in your license document

2
Do you mean where the settings are stored in database? If you are using EA 13 just search for project/user default
Best Regards
Nabil

[fararooy]

1. is setting up the security advisable for a shared business environment? is it easy to set-up and administer?

2. I SEARCHED FOR DEFAULTS AND COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING.

3. Is the default opening page(s) for each project or package configurable without the use of security feature?

[Nabil]

1.It is easy to configure. It is one time configuration and you can link with AD. It is advisable to have in shared environment

2. Use these keywords Model Default diagram for your project, or your User Default diagram

3.Model default can be configured without security enabled

Best Regards
Nabil

[qwerty]

3.Model default can be configured without security enabled

Only globally for a single diagram and for all users the same. See Simon's first reply.

q.

[Uffe]

Hello Saeed,


User security is definitely advisable in any situation where more than one person access the same EA project. To enable it, you must use a special key which is available from the "registered users" section of the Sparx web site.

After enabling security, you should also switch to "Require User Lock to Edit" mode. This means that before any changes can be made, the user must "lock" the package. While the package is locked, no one else can lock it but they can still see all contents. There are other modes of user security in EA, but for a beginner this is the one you want.

Note that locks must be released manually; they are not released automatically when closing the session. The project administrator can release other people's locks, but the GUI for that is pretty bad which makes it a needlessly complicated process.

When you enable security, you get one "admin" account with full privileges. You must then create or import accounts for other users. You can create them with local passwords, or import them from the Windows Active Directory.

Users belong to groups, which control the permissions available to them. These groups can also be synched to AD groups.

Note finally that the unit of access control in EA is the project. It is not possible to restrict access to certain packages: users' permissions apply to everything within a project.

HTH,


/Uffe