About the Management Tasks
When you start your template-based product, it automatically creates the necessary files for you to begin working immediately. As you become more familiar with your template-based product, you may find that you want to set up custom private versions of it or change the way it is configured. In addition, you may want to set up custom site versions that several users can share.
The template-based products let you do these different management tasks depending on the type of user access you have been assigned. You should give one user, who has expert-user access, the responsibility of managing the site version, if you have one, of your template-based product so only one user, the site manager, makes changes.
The following table lists the different management tasks that you can perform depending on your user access. You can perform many of these tasks using the menus in your template-based product. Other tasks require you to set variables in different configuration files.
Management Tasks by User Type
This type of user: | Can: |
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Standard user | ■Create and set up private databases in which to store files, such as subsystems and property files, with which you are working. ■Make copies of files in your private database or copy the entire database to share with other users. ■Configure the operation of your template-based product for your private use. |
Expert user | ■Perform the same tasks as a standard user. ■Publish a template so all users can use it. |
Site manager | ■Set up site databases in which general project information is stored. ■Define the access that users can have to functionality. ■Set up a custom version of your template-based product and configure its operation. ■Assigns access to common databases to allow read and write permissions for standard and expert users. |
To access management tools:
Your access to management tools depends on your user access:
■Standard users - You can access your template-based product's tools that let you manage your private database. The tools are under the Tools menu.
■Expert user - You can access the management tools from the Tools menu.
To get expert-user access, modify your private .acar.cfg configuration file and change your user mode to EXPERT.
Learn about setting your product's environment.