How to turn on Global User Accounts?

Modified on Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:43 by CAREWare Help Desk — Categorized as: FAQ

Global User Accounts are allowed access to all client data, provider reports, and provider domains through the Global User Permission. This permission is granted by default to the default account: CwTemp during an initial installation of CAREWare. The permission is granted through the Provider/User Manager on the Central Administration domain. You can use the following steps to grant the permission to a CAREWare Central Administration user:

How to grant global user permissions to an account

  1. Login to the Central Administration domain
  2. Go to Administrative Options>Provider/User Manager
  3. Expand Central Administration's Users and Permissions
  4. Expand Users, then expand the user account you would like to grant the permission to
  5. Click on Individual Permissions
  6. Type Global in the Filter Text box at the top
  7. Highlight and Right click on the Global User permission and select Grant
  8. Press F1: or click on F1:Save
  9. Escape or click on Esc:Close

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Once the global user permission is granted for a user they will be able to view all data and reports for all provider domains while logged in to the Central Administration domain. If a Central Administration user account does not have the Global User permission, they will only be able to centrally view a provider's data if they have been specifically granted permission to the provider domain. You grant a non-global user access to view additional provider domains using the following steps:

How to grant domain permission to a user account:

  1. Login to the Central Administration domain
  2. Go to Administrative Options>Provider/User Manager
  3. Double click on User/Provider Assignment
  4. Expand the user name you want to grant permission to the domain for
  5. Right click on the provider domain that you want to add the user to
  6. Select Grant
  7. Click Close
  8. Escape or click on Esc:Close

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