TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Main Screen Overview
- Creating a Blueprint Rule
- Removing a User(s) from a Blueprint Rule
- Deleting a Blueprint Rule
- Further Support
Introduction
ManagementStudio offers blueprints to help a project admin organize and structure a group of related items. They are similar to folders in Windows, a Blueprint can contain Users, Applications, Devices, Mailboxes, Bespoke and Deployment Units. This section describes how an Admin can limit a User's access to specific modules by blueprints in ManagementStudio.
Note that the User must be in the standard Role Groups to define the level of access for the module (such as Read-only). The Blueprint Rule can then be used to limit the user to items in specific Blueprints and modules.
Main Screen Overview
The main screen consist of three core areas:
- Toolbar controls - This is common across many layouts in ManagementStudio, have a look at the solution article for the tool bar common functions.
- Blueprint Rules Grid - This list the information and details about each of the blueprint rules created within a project.
- Blueprints available - This displays all the Blueprints available within a project such as Applications, Users blueprints etc.
Creating a Blueprint Rule
Use Case: A Project admin is required to limit a Project engineer's access to specific blueprint based on location. For example An Engineer based in England should only be able to access the England blueprints.
Step 1 | Create Blueprint Rule
- Click on Click here to add new item to create a new entry
- Enter the Rule Name and a brief description (1).
- Select the Modules for the blueprint rule (2). For example Applications, Devices etc.
- Click Edit Rules.
- Select the Blueprint folder (3) for this access.
- Click Finished (4).
- Another Blueprint rule can be created by clicking on Click here to add new item.
An example of an England Blueprint rule to only grant access to the England blueprint
- Once all rules have been created, click Save Changes.
- Click Save to Confirm.
Step 2 | Add a Specific User(s) to a Blueprint Rule
- Switch to Administration -> MS User Accounts (1).
- Click on the User or group of Users (2) from the grid.
- Right click and select Add Blueprint Rules (3) from the context menu.
- Select the Blueprint Rule (1).
- Click Add Blueprints (2).
When a User is added to a new Blueprint rule, this will not remove their current Blueprint rules.
- The member count against the Blueprint rule panel (1) should be updated afterwards.
- This completes the process of creating a Blueprint Rule and also adding a user to the Blueprint rule.
Removing a User(s) from a Blueprint Rule
- Switch to Administration -> MS User Accounts (1).
- Click on the User or group of Users (2) from the grid.
- Right click and select Remove Blueprint Rules (3) from the context menu.
- Select the Blueprint Rule (1) to remove the user from.
- Click Remove Blueprints (2).
- The member count against the Blueprint rule panel (1) should be updated afterwards.
Deleting a Blueprint Rule
- Enable the Delete option by clicking on the Grid Column Chooser (1) from the toolbar.
- Select Delete (2).
- The delete column should be visible on the grid
- Ensure the delete checkbox is enabled against the Blueprint rule (1) to be deleted.
- Click Save Changes (2).
- Ensure Yes, I'm sure (1) checkbox is checked.
- Click Delete (2).
- This completes the process of deleting a Blueprint Rule.
Further Support
If you require further support, please visit ManagementStudio's Service Desk to search the knowledge base or create a new support ticket.