Permission Management: Simplified and Detailed

Note: BIMcloud Basic allows only Simplified management.

BIMcloud offers two different permission management modes:

Simplified management

Detailed management

Switch between these modes at Servers, on the BIMcloud Manager's Settings panel:

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Simplified Management

Simplified management divides all users into three groups.

In BIMcloud Manager, go to the Users page. For each selected user, the Personal settings section of the Settings panel contains a Management role pop-up, where the management role is selected:

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Server Administrator

Project Administrator

Not set

Based on this Management role, the user will be granted access to items on the BIMcloud according to the following rules:

 

Server Administrator

Project Administrator

Not set

Projects

Full access

Full access

View all projects for which he/she has been added to the Access panel, with any Role

Users

Full access

View only

 

Roles

Full access

View only

 

Servers

Full access

View only

 

ARCHICAD projects

According to granted permissions

According to granted permissions

According to granted permissions

Detailed Management

Each content item on the BIMcloud has its own Access panel. Users can view/modify the selected item according to the permissions they were granted on these panels.

What Happens When You Change to Detailed Mode?

All existing access permissions will be retained; all users can continue work without further interruption.

Two new User Groups appear on the Users page:

Project Administrators

Server Administrators

The existing Project and Server Administrators are added to these groups.

Two new roles are created on the Roles page:

Full access (Contains all permissions)

View only (Contains View item permission only)

The following accesses will be automatically granted to these two new groups on the root level of all content types:

 

Server Administrator

Project Administrator

Projects root

Full access

Full access

Users root

Full access

View only

Roles root

Full access

View only

Servers root

Full access

View only

Due to the inheritance of the permissions, these new permissions will apply to all items under the root. You will be able to fine-tune all permissions from now on, for each and every content item.