Administering User Permissions

To edit user permissions, you must be assigned permission 30 (Passwords and authorizations). See Permissions Used by Sierra for more information.

The Sierra Administration Web application's Permissions Admin function controls the set of Sierra function permissions for a user.

Editing Permissions

To edit permissions:

  1. Select Authorizations and Authentication Admin from the Admin App menu.
  2. Click Users.
  3. Click + to the left of a listed user to expose the EDIT button.
  4. Click EDIT.
  5. Click Permissions. The system presents two parallel lists, one showing permissions that the user has been assigned and the other showing permissions that the user has not been assigned.
  6. Modify the permission as follows:
    • To add a permission, use the mouse to drag the user from the Available permissions list to the Assigned permissions list.
    • To remove a permission, use the mouse to drag the user from the Assigned permissions list to the Available permissions list.

You can view a subset of the permissions on either list by typing a pattern of three or more characters into the Filter list by typing here box.

  1. Click SAVE.
Importing User Parameters

You can copy the parameters of an existing user with the Import Settings function.

  1. Choose Import Settings.
  2. Select the user whose parameters you want to import.
  3. Select the parameters you want to import.
  4. Click IMPORT SETTINGS.

Exporting a List of Permissions

You can export a list of permissions assigned to users as a comma-separated values (.csv) file. You can export the permissions assigned to a single user or the permissions for multiple users in a single file. This file can help library administrators manage the permissions assigned to library staff.

See Exporting a List of User Permissions for more information.