Roles and Permissions

QPR ProcessAnalyzer has a role-based access control, where all operations require appropriate rights in order to be executable. rights are given to users and user groups by assigning users or groups to roles, where roles are a collection of permissions. Permissions are fixed in QPR ProcessAnalyzer and there is a fixed list of operations behind a permission what user can do. Roles can be bound either to projects or be global, which means that that role (and its permissions) is applicable for all the contents in the system. Users belonging to a user group, have always all the roles assigned to that user group.

Global and Project Roles

There are two types of roles in QPR ProcessAnalyzer:

• Global roles are used to give rights in the entire QPR ProcessAnalyzer environment.
• Project roles are used to give rights in a certain project. When assigning projects roles, the project needs to be defined.

When using the Manage Users dialog, global roles are assigned when <All> is selected from the project list. Projects roles are assigned, when a project is selected in the list.

By default, QPR ProcessAnalyzer environment contains global and project roles that are shown in the following table (roles are as columns). The roles have been mapped to certain permissions that are also shown in the following table (permissions are as rows). It's possible to create new roles in QPR ProcessAnalyzer.

		Global roles				Project roles
Permission	Allowed operations	Administrator	ModelCreator	Evaluator (*)	RunScripts	Administrator	Designer	Analyzer	Viewer
GenericRead	View project's and model's contents (metadata, cases, events, ...) Open analyses for models See own private filters, all published filters and the model default filter (not possible to create new filters)
Filtering	Create new filters Modify and delete own filters Publish filters (not set model default filter) (published filters are still user's own, so other users cannot edit them even though they can see them)
GenericWrite	Edit model information (not possible to create or delete models) Create and modify filters for model Import new data to models
CreateModel	Create projects. When a project is created, the creator gets project Administrator role for the project (givin full permissions to the project)
DeleteModel	Delete models and datatables
ManageViews	Administrate filters View all filters in a model (also other users' private filters)
ManageProject	Modify project information (name and description)
ManageIntegrations	View and manage data tables
ManageReports
ManageOperations	Access Operation Log and terminate operations in progress
ManageUsers	Administrate users, e.g. create new users
RunScripts	View script definitions and run scripts
ManageScripts	Create, modify and delete scripts

Notes:

• In addition, there is an Evaluator role, which is similar to the ModelCreator role, but it has additional restrictions described in Additional Restrictions for Evaluator Role.
• ModelCreator and Evaluator roles get the project level Administrator role for the projects that they create, giving full rights for the created projects.
• Users with global Administrator or ModelCreator role can always import new data into any model without restrictions. Note, however, that a user cannot import more data than what is allowed by the product activation limits.

Group Roles

	Administrator (Group)	Member	Hidden Member
Add/Remove Group Members
Create Users to Group
Add/Remove Project Access Rights of a User
Open Model Accessible to Group Members
See Unhidden Group Members
See Hidden Group Members

If a group member is a project level Administrator, the user can add and remove project specific access rights for the group or for any individual member of the project.

Additional Restrictions for Evaluator Role

Evaluator has the following additional restrictions:

• Maximum number of models: 10
• Maximum number of event in a model: 1000
• Maximum number of event attributes in a model: 1000
• Maximum number of case attributes in a model: 1000
• Maximum number of data tables: 10
• Maximum number of rows in an data table: 1000
• Maximum number of columns in an data table: 1000

Model Permissions

Creation

New model can be created only by users having global CreateModel permission. When creating a new model, model size restrictions are copied from user and stored to the Model, e.g. maximum number of events, case attributes and event attributes. This is done in order to prevent global Evaluator users from creating a project administrator user (after creating an user group) and using that to import more data into the model created by the Evaluator user than is allowed by Evaluator user's role.

Importing new data

User may never import more data than is allowed by product's activation. Model specific data quotas are ignored for users that have unrestricted global CreateModel permission. Users that have restricted global CreateModel permission (e.g., global evaluators) or users that don't have any global CreateModel permission may only import the amount of data into a model specified in model's own restrictions.

Script Permissions

For viewing script definitions and running scripts, global RunScripts permission is needed. All scripts linked to the current context are available provided that the current user has permission to see the scripts in the context. The required permissions by context are:

• System context: No additional requirements.
• Project context: GenericRead permission for the project.
• Model context: GenericRead permission for the project of the model.
• User context: If the script is linked to current user, then no additional requirements. If the script is linked to a group the current user belongs to, no additional requirements. If the script is linked to other users or user groups, global ManageScripts permission is required.

For script creation, modification, deletion and export, the following permissions are needed depending on the script context:

• System context: Global ManageScripts and RunScripts
• Project context: project level ManageScripts and global RunScripts
• Model context: project level ManageScripts and global RunScripts
• User context: Global RunScripts and if the script is linked to a user group the user belongs to, GroupAdministrator user group role is required.

If Hide Script Details is set for the script, only users with modify permissions for the script can see the script code and log.

Data table Permissions

Viewing

To view data tables ManageIntegrations and GenericRead permissions are needed.

Creating

Creating data tables requires global CreateModel permission. When creating a new data table, data table size restrictions (maximum number of rows and columns allowed by user's roles) are copied from current user and stored for the data table. This is done in order to prevent global Evaluator user from creating a project administrator user (after creating an user group) and using that to import more data into the data table created by the evaluator user than is allowed by evaluator user's role.

Importing data

Data can be imported into a data table with project GenericWrite and ManageIntegrations permissions. CreateModel permission is required if the user is overwriting existing data in the data table, i.e. not not appending. User may never import more data than is allowed by product's activation. Data table specific data quotas are ignored for users that have unrestricted global CreateModel permission. Users that have restricted global CreateModel permission or users that don't have any global CreateModel permission may only import the amount of data into a data table specified in data table's own restrictions.

Miscellaneous Operations Permissions

• Create a new model and project: Global CreateModel permission. Administrator role is given for the user into the created project (and thus also model).
• Add a model into project: CreateModel permission for the target project. Model is moved into target project and all old permissions are replaced by the permissions for the target project.
• Create a new model into existing project: Global CreateModel and CreateModel permission for the target project.
• Move a model from a project to another: GenericWrite and DeleteModel permissions for the source project and CreateModel permission for the target project.
• Making modifications to a project object (renaming, deleting, restoring, changing description): ManageProject and GenericRead permissions for the project.
• Moving a project into recycle bin: DeleteModel and ManageProject permissions for the project.
• Restoring a project from recycle bin: Global GenericRead, CreateModel and ManageProject permissions.
• Deleting a project from the database: Global DeleteModel permission and ManageProject permission for the project.
• Creating a copy of a project: Global CreateModel permission and GenericRead and ManageProject permissions for the project.

See Also

• Case Level Permissions Control
• Manage Users in QPR ProcessAnalyzer Excel Client
• How to Publish Analysis Results to Others