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Users

Select Security > Users.

A user is someone who accesses FME Server applications, services, and other resources. A user can belong to one or more roles.

For more information about users and roles in FME Server, see Role-Based and User-Based Access Control.

When FME Server is installed for the first time, default user accounts are created.

The columns displayed in the Users table are:

Name - the name of the user account.

Roles - the roles assigned to the user account

Status - Whether the User account is enabled or disabled.

Quick Tasks

  • To enable or disable user accounts, check their corresponding boxes, and click Enable or Disable.
  • To remove users, check their boxes, and click Delete.
  • To restrict or expand your view of users to hide or show Active Directory users, click Options and check (or uncheck) Hide active directory users.

Adding and Removing Users

To add a user account, click New. Alternatively, select an existing user and click Duplicate. A dialog displays to add a new user account. This dialog is similar to Configuring an Existing User, below.

To remove a user account, select it and click Delete.

Viewing and Configuring User Permissions and Other Settings

To configure an existing user account, click an entry in the table. The Edit User page opens. Configure the following settings, and click OK to save your changes.

Full Name

Name of the user account.

Email

(Optional) Email address of the user.

Assigned Security Roles

Roles to which the user belongs.

To assign roles to the user, click inside the blank space of the field and select a role in the drop-down. To remove roles from the user, click the "x" beside the role name.

Account Enabled

If checked, the user account is enabled. To disable the user account, clear the checkbox.

Change Password

(Optional) Click to change the password that must be entered by the user to log in.

Permissions

You can give a user access to different functions in FME Server, regardless of assigned role. Check the box beside a function to grant access. If a user already has access through membership in a role, it is indicated with a check icon. Mouse-over an icon to see the role through which permission is granted.

There are two levels of permissions:

  • General: Allows a user to view the corresponding navigation link in the Web User Interface, along with select management functions, depending on the category. For example, if Access is checked beside Repositories, the user can access the Repositories page. Additionally, if Create is checked, the user can create repositories on the Repositories page.
  • Item: Allows a user specific permissions on items within functional categories. To view items, click the drop-down icon of a category (v). For example, when you expand the Repositories category, you see the individual repositories on your FME Server, along with the permissions that can be granted for each one.

The following is a detailed explanation of general- and item-level (where applicable) permissions for each category:

ClosedRun Workspace
ClosedRepositories
  • Access: Access the Repositories page.

    • Note: Access permission is not required to run a workspace. Only Run permission on the applicable repository is required (see below).

  • Create: Create repositories.

    • Individual Repositories:

    • Download: Download workspaces and other repository items from FME Server into Workbench.
    • Read: View repository information.
    • Publish: Publish workspaces and other items to the repository from Workbench.
    • Run: Run repository workspaces from FME Server.

      • Note: Users must also have Allow permission on the applicable service (see Services) when running workspaces.

    • Remove: Remove a repository, or remove items from a repository.

    Note: You must uncheck all five permissions to completely remove a role from membership with a repository.

ClosedProjects
  • Access: Access the Projects page.
  • Create: Create projects.

    • Individual Projects:

    • Read: View information about a project.
    • Write: Edit a project.
    • Delete: Delete a project, or delete items from a project.

    Note: Access or Create permission is not required to have Read/Write/Delete permission on individual projects. These tasks can still be accomplished with the REST API.

ClosedSchedules
  • Access: Access the Schedules page.
  • Create: Create schedules.

    • Individual Schedules:

    • Allow: Edit or delete a schedule.
ClosedJobs
  • Access: Access the Jobs page to view the jobs you have run, or cancel any of your jobs that are currently running or in queue.
  • Manage: Access and manage the jobs of all users. You can:
    • Cancel any job that is currently running.
    • Remove the history of jobs that were previously run.
ClosedDashboards
ClosedPublications
  • Access: Access the Publications page.
  • Create: Create Notification Service Publications.

    • Individual Publications:

    • Read: View information about a publication.
    • Write: Edit a publication.
    • Remove: Delete a publication.
ClosedSubscriptions
  • Access: Access the Subscriptions page.
  • Create: Create Notification Service Subscriptions.

    • Individual Subscriptions:

    • Read: View information about a subscription.
    • Write: Edit a subscription.
    • Remove: Delete a subscription.
ClosedTopics
  • Access: Access the Topics page.
  • Create: Create topics.

    • Individual Topics:

    • Read: View information about a topic.
    • Write: Edit a topic.
    • Publish: Publish notifications to a topic.
    • Remove: Delete a topic.
ClosedResources
  • Access: Access the Resources page.
  • Create: Create connections to network resources.

    • Individual Resource connections (top-level folders):

    • Access: Read and download a file.
    • List: List the folders and files of a resource.
    • Write: Write to files.
    • Upload: Upload files.
    • Remove: Delete files.
ClosedConnections
  • Access: Access the Database Connections and Web Connections pages.
  • Create: Create connections.
  • Manage: Manage connections.

    • Individual Connections:

    • Allow: Manage web services.
ClosedEngines & Licensing
ClosedSecurity
ClosedSystem Cleanup
ClosedServices
  • Manage: Configure the FME Server services.