How to manage admin user rights in System Manager : Aico

Manage administrative user rights

Modified on Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 01:51 PM

There are two types of system administrators in Aico:

Global system administrators have unlimited rights to all systems and administrative areas.
System administrators manage the content in a single Aico system and can also be restricted in what administrative tasks they can perform.

This article covers how to:

Manage visibility of tabs for system administrators
Add global system administrator rights
Remove global system administrator rights

Manage visibility of tabs for system administrators

To manage the visibility of tabs and to assign administrative user rights in Aico web client, follow the steps below:

1. On the Users tab, select a system administrator.

Tip: If the list is long, you can enter a search phrase in the Search field.

2. Click the user account in the left panel. The user account opens for editing.

3. At the bottom of the page, click Manage Admin Rights. A new page opens, listing all the available tabs and administrative user rights.

To set the rights to access certain System Manager tabs and perform certain administrative actions in Aico web client, select and/or clear the checkboxes. For example, you can define if the selected system administrator can access the Users tab which would allow them to create and edit Users and User groups.

Super user mode and shared dashboard editing are rights that an Administrator can be given in the Aico web client.

4. Click Save.

Warning! Only Global administrators can add new System Administrators and promote existing System administrators to be Global administrators.

Add global system administrator rights

To promote a system administrator to a global system administrator, follow the steps below:

1. On the Users tab, select a system administrator

2. Click the user account in the left panel. The user account opens for editing.

3. Click Manage Admin Rights. The Admin rights page opens.

4. Click Make global admin. The selected user is now promoted to a global system administrator.

Remove global system administrator rights

To remove global system administrator rights, follow the steps below:

1. Click on the Users tab

2. Select a global system administrator and click the user account in the left panel. The user account opens for editing.

3. Click on Manage Admin Rights to open the Admin rights page.

4. Click Remove global admin rights. The selected user is now downgraded to a normal user without any administrative rights.