Administration

Creating users and groups

Only the administrator can create or modify users/groups. When the administrator logs onto the system he may access the group/user creation utilities via the Tools menu item Repository Administration.

Fig 1. Repository Administration Console

Groups Management

To create, edit or view a group, click on the Groups... button in figure 1. The following window will appear.

Fig 2. Adding or deleting a group

• To add a new group, type its name in the text area near the Group label, then click on Add.
• To delete a group, select it in the list of Existing Groups, then click on Delete.

When you select a group in the list of existing groups, the users that belong to this group are displayed in the Members list.

User creation and modification

The table in the bottom of the screen in figure 1 is used for listing the current configured users of MIW. To create a new user click on the Add... button and the following window will appear.

Fig. 3. Creating a new user

The following fields are mandatory:

• the login name is the name used to log into the system, it is unique for a given installation.
• the password is the password for the user and it is typed when you log in

The other fields are optional and are self explanatory except for the group box.

• To add the User to a Group click on Add... and the Group window (see Figure 2) will appear. In this window,
  • select a group in the list of Existing Groups and
  • click on the Add button.
  • Click on Close to close the Group window and come back to the User window.
• To remove the User from a Group, select it and click on Remove.

The window for modifying the user is exactly the same, except the fields will be filled in with the current values.

To save the results from either a user creation or modification, click on Save and the changes are saved in the database.

Configuration file modification

The first window to appear after having selected the Administration menu item is the window that describes the Preferences information and lists the current users of the system.

Fig. 4. Changing preferences and users

In the above window we see that we are able to change the following preference information that was supplied at installation time.

• The DSN used by the system to access the database. For Oracle, the DSN should be equal to the string that is employed in the TNSName entry
• The username that was configured in the RDBMS.
• The password of the database user, this value and the username may be null for a Microsoft ACCESS database.
• The directory used for transferring files between the client and the server. This directory is also used for the execution of the remote bridges and for the storing of files for global access.
• The log file that is used for storing messages that are printed by the server.

After having modified any of the above values press on the Apply button to save the changes. However the changes will take effects only after stopping and restarting the server.