Users

Every person that uses Active View online platform needs to have an authorized account profile with login name and specified password. There is a different levels of access to that platform.

To open the application user list, select Administration → Users from the main menu.

You can create a new user and edit or remove an existing one.

There are three types of users:

• Manager,
• User,
• End User.

A Manager has access to all ActiveView functionalities (except administration on the server side).

Example: Security company ARC manager or office manager.

A User’s responsibility is to process alarms. This type of user has access to:

• Alarms section,
• Reports section, without periodic alarms.

Example: Security company operator working at ARC.

An End user represents someone who has contracted the security agency to protect his/her company.

This type of user always has a company assigned. He/she can have access to all or some of the company’s sites. He/she is allowed to view events and alarms only from these sites and from devices linked to them.

An End User can view (but not modify in any way):

• alarms – he/she can browse and search for alarms, but cannot open alarm details or perform any action on an alarm;
• reports – he/she can generate reports on demand, but cannot view or configure periodic reports;
• the company that is assigned to him/her (with additional details, like contacts);
• employees of the company;
• sites he/she has access to (with additional details, like contacts);
• routes for these sites;
• devices linked to these sites.

Example: Employee of the customer that is authorized to control security company and the services they provide with our equipment.

Every user has the following properties:

• Login – blank characters and the @ (at) character are not allowed.
• Name
• Password – to avoid errors, it has to be entered twice when a user is created.
• Role – type of user.
• Company [available if Role is set to End user] – a company assigned to the user.
• Sites [available if Role is set to End user] – a list of the company’s sites (down arrow opens the list, “check” button selects all, X button clears selection); the end user has access to those which are selected.
• Visible events [available if Role is set to End user] – a list of all events and alarms (down arrow opens the list, “check” button selects all, X button clears selection); the end user sees only those which are selected.

NOTE: When a user logs in to the application, he/she must use his/her login and a code of the organization he/she works for, separated with the @ character. For example, a user called John who works for EBS should log in as john@ebs.