Permissions in Business Desk

You use the Permissions module to grant and deny access to Business Desk functionality to Windows user accounts.

Permissions determine the actions a user can perform by using Business Desk. For example, you might want to grant some users permission to create catalogs, modify catalog properties, or export a product catalog. You might want to grant other users only permissions to view the product catalogs. You can grant permissions to Windows user accounts or groups.

You can grant or deny access to any of your profile properties, product catalogs, catalog categories, or catalog properties. You can secure each Business Desk category or module, and each of the tasks associated with it. Each element listed on the Security Permissions screen has two options: allow or deny.

Notes

• The deny option always overrides the allow option; you can use this to remove permissions that a user has inherited through a group membership.

  For example, suppose Sean Chai is a member of the Catalogs Windows group, and you want to grant permission to access the Catalog Editor module to everyone in that group except Sean. You would then grant the Catalogs group permission to access the Catalog Editor module, and you would deny that permission to the account assigned to Sean. Sean could no longer access the Catalog Editor module, but he could continue to access every other module to which the Catalogs group was granted access.

• Administrators and all members of the local Administrators group (or the Domain Administrators group if Business Desk is running on a domain controller) always have complete access to all Business Desk elements. You cannot add an administrator to the user groups.

See Also

Creating Windows Accounts

Setting Business Desk Permissions for Windows Accounts

Adding Windows Accounts to the Account List

Removing Windows Accounts from the Accounts List

Viewing Account Permissions

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