User Rights for DI.12

User Rights

The term user rights refers to the permissions a person has on the platform to access and / or edit parts of the platform and the information stored on it. 

Your company will have assigned you a certain level of rights within the Digimind platform.  For a description of what you can access and edit please see below.  Digimind is unable to alter the level of your rights without the permission from the person in your company who is responsible for your CI project and the Digimind platform.

You can download a guide in pdf by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article.

Three Types of User

End User / Reader

An end user is a person who needs to read and understand the information that is collected by and stored on the Digimind platform.

This type of user can:

• search within the platform: DCF, validated information, profiles
• use My Reader to create reports using information validated into projects
• access published information: newsletters, reports, shared dashboards
• publish reports
• use lists that have been prepared by a power user for search
• comment on information that has already been stored in a Digimind project or folder
• subscribe to existing Watchlist channels
• send information into the Digimind platform using Easytrack

Business User / Tracker

A business user is more involved in the information selection process and therefore has the same rights as an end user with some additional rights.  A business user can:

• search within the platform: DCF, alerts, validated information, profiles
• access published information: newsletters, reports, shared dashboards
• comment on information that has already been stored in a Digimind project or folder
• send information into the Digimind platform using Easytrack
• select information to store in Digimind folders , add a comment to this information and edit any information he / she has added
  
• create and manage Digimind agents: add / edit sources and add / edit queries
• prepare, edit and use lists for use in search, agents and folders
• add profile sheets to profile manager
• use Digimind Watchlists: subscribe to Watchlist channels, create a channel

Power User / Animator

A power user has greater control over the structure of the Digimind project and how it will be used within a company.  This user has the same rights as the business user and end user.  In addition a power user can:

• search within the platform: DCF, alerts, validated information, profiles
• access published information: newsletters, reports, shared dashboards
• select information to store in Digimind folders and add a comment to this information
• send information into the Digimind platform using Easytrack
• use Digimind Watchlists: subscribe to Watchlist channels, create a channel
• create and manage Digimind agents: add / edit sources and add / edit queries
• prepare, edit and use lists for use in search, agents and folders
• add profile sheets to profile manager
• create and manage Digimind projects and folders for storing information
• edit the information that they have stored and the information stored by other users of the platform
• prepare and edit lists for use in search, agents, graphs and automatic categorization
• set up newsletters to send to other users
• create templates for newsletters and reports
• create and share dashboards with other users
• initialize Watchlists for other users

The Administrator

This person has total control over the Digimind platform within your company.   In addition to the rights assigned to an animator  he / she can

• create users and modify passwords. 
• edit and create profile templates