User Permissions

To access: VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User Permissions > {user type}

All users do not have equal access to features in Voter Focus. Their ability to see data and run programs depends on their user type and the user permissions given to that user type.

The Voter Focus administrator defines permissions at the user type level and then assigns each user to a user type. This saves the administrator from having to assign rights to each individual user.

The buttons and other access controls for features that the administrator has disabled for a user type are not displayed to those users. For example, if you disable the user permission called DeliverBallots, users of that user type will not see the Deliver Ballots button on the Vote By Mail tab on the Console and thus will be unable to set up mail ballots for delivery to voters. (In a few cases, access controls for disabled features are still shown, but they appear dimmed.)

Click here for a description of the features secured by each user permission.

When VR Systems adds a secured feature to Voter Focus, the system administrator must enable the feature for the user types that need access to it.

User permissions are database-specific. If you create a new Sandbox or Training database, it will inherit the user permissions in the production database. The settings in Sandbox or Training can then be modified as you wish, with no effect on the live database settings.

To assign permissions to a user type:

1. Go to VOTER FOCUS ADMIN > User Permissions.

2. On the Users List dialog, in the Permissions column, click the user type button for any user. For example, if you want to change the user permissions for the SYSAD user type, click any SYSAD Permissions button in the Permissions column.

3. On the User Permission dialog, the right pane—Permissions Granted—shows the permissions the user type currently has. Features in the left pane—Permissions Withheld—are currently hidden from users assigned to this user type.

To add a permission, highlight the feature in the left pane and click > to move it to the right pane.

To remove a permission, highlight the feature in the right pane and click < to move it to the left pane.

The << and >> buttons move all features in one pane to the opposite pane.

4. When you have set up the permissions appropriately, click Save and then click Close.

5. Users will need to restart the Voter Focus Console to see the results of the newly granted or withheld permissions.