Clearing and Resetting Permissions During Sessions

The Admin | Clear Permissions and Admin | Set Permissions options appear on the menubar only if your site is set up for SDA Context users. See Sierra Users for a full discussion of user account classes.

If your user account does not have the permissions you require, you can either:

enter another username and password every time you perform a task requiring it
clear and reset the user account's permissions for the session

Returning to Default Function

In some functions, clearing your permissions returns you to your default function. Re-enter your username and password for the default function if prompted.

Multiple Accounting/Serials Units

If your library has multiple accounting/serials units, you cannot change the accounting/serials unit during a session. For example, if you start a session with a user account that correspond to accounting/serials unit '1,' the accounting/serials unit will remain '1' until you restart Sierra with a different user account. You can view the current accounting/serials unit by choosing Help | About.

Viewing the Current User Account

You can view the user account you have used by choosing Help | About.

Clearing Permissions

To clear the user account's permissions for the session, choose Admin | Clear Permissions. The permissions are cleared. Note that this does not log you out.

In some functions, you do not have to clear the current user account's permissions before resetting them. That is, the Set Permissions Admin menu option is always available.

Setting Permissions

To set permissions:

Choose Admin | Set Permissions. You are prompted to enter a username and password.
Enter a username and password.
Choose OK.