How VISULOX handles presentation roles

Overview

With the VISULOX role editor it is possible to apply one or more roles to a user, who is working with a VISULOX GUI.

A role includes beside a case sensitive role name without spaces, properties for the GUI, filter for the views and usage of register tabs.

Within the application definition in the VISULOX PORTAL, these roles can be applied with the option -roles and a comma separated list of roles names.

Role properties

Property	Behaviour
Keyboard input data	If enabled the user will be able to see the keyboard input events in the event log. These events include any input (including passwords) into a session.
Refresh	If enabled, the GUI will have an automatic refresh, when the data in the current register tab has been changed. If many sessions are under VISULOX control, it is possible to disable the automatic refresh to be able to work with the GUI. New data will be signalized to the user. Pressing F5 will do an immediate update.
Help / Tooltip	If enabled, pointing to a field will present an information tooltip to the user.

Role view filters

The VISULOX views include username and groups the users belong to or the application.

The Online and Archive page view can be controlled with a role filter for user/ group or application.

If set, the supervisor will see only data matching these filters.

With "Remote IP" and "Access Point" the role can be adjusted only to apply to these criterias.

ONLY the default role can assign role mask files. A role cannot be configured to open more than the role has itself.

Known issues and comments

A role is generated for a specific application (vlxhelpdesk, vlxadmin) and can only be used for that application. Currently there is no check if a role applies to an application.

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