Manage data feed permissions
You can manage the permissions of data feeds in the MashZone NextGen Feed Editor. You are able to assign specific access permissions to individual users or user groups. If you assign permissions to a user group the permissions are automatically assigned to all members of the user group.
Note: | You can assign access rights only for saved data feeds. |
Access right
EditThis user can use data feeds to create dashboards or include them in other data feeds and he can edit data feeds in MashZone NextGen Feed Editor.
View This user can use data feeds to create dashboards or include them in other data feeds. This user can view the data of the data feed in the view mode of the related dashboard.
Procedure
1. Click DATA SOURCES > Open data feed in the MashZone NextGen Hub main menu.
2. Select an Available data feed and click OK.
You can also search a data feed by keyboard entry.
Depending on the browser settings, the feed editor opens in a separate tab or in a separate window, and you can specify your settings.
3. Click Manage > Permissions in the feed editor main menu. The Manage dashboard permissions dialog is displayed.
4. Enter a therm in the search field and click Search. Clicking on Search without any input values fetches all users and groups.
5. Click Show MashZone NextGen default groups to show only default MashZone NextGen users or user group in the Search results field.
6. Drag an user or user group from the Search result field and drop it into the Principals with permissions field.
Note: | By default, the creator of the data feed is already present in the Principals with permissions list. |
7. Activate or deactivate the View or Edit privileges of an user or user group.
8. Click Save.
Your changes are applied.
If you want to remove a user or user group from the
Principals with permissions list click the
Delete icon.
