Add an “Apps” Permission Group

This is the Add icon.

Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS supports custom applications through the Apps feature. When the Apps feature is activated, you will have the ability to create a Permission Group to define who will have access to one or all of your custom applications. Any users that are in an Administrator Group will automatically have access to the Apps. All other users will need to be given specific access.

*The Apps feature requires additional configuration. Please refer to the Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS Apps section for more details. On Orchid Hybrid VMS systems, IPConfigure Support personnel will modify the configuration file to activate the Apps feature.

*This example will show how to configure a Permission Group with access to your custom applications. To keep this simple, we are only granting access to the Apps. However, you may grant Apps access to any of your other groups, as needed. In this case, we will skip the External, Admin Settings and the Permissions tabs.

1. Click the Add Permission Group button in the top-right corner of the Permission Groups list. A New Permission Group screen will open.

The General Settings Tab

2. Enter a name and a description for the new Permission Group in the Group Name and Group Description fields.
3. Select members for the new Permission Group by clicking on the Search for members field; this will open a drop-down list of Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS users. Find and click on a user. As soon as you select a member, a list will appear so you can make another selection (if needed).
   1. Press Esc if you don’t need to select another member.
   2. To remove a member, click the X to the right of the member name.

*The software provides two locations at which you may assign user permissions. With the User feature, you assign user permissions (indirectly) by selecting the Permission Group(s) to which the user belongs. With the Permission Groups feature, you assign users as members of Permission Groups with specific abilities and access. While you don’t have to select any members immediately upon adding a Permission Group, until you do, the Permission Group will essentially be inactive.

4. Use the Member Groups section if you want to add member groups to this group. (If you need to pull one or more users from an external system, use the External Group Mappings tab for that.)
5. Once all of your members are selected, click the Other Permissions tab to continue configuring this group.

The Other Permissions Tab

With the Other Permissions tab, you have the option of granting access to all of your custom applications, or specific applications.

1. To configure Apps for this Permission Group, click in the Apps field.
   1. If this Permission Group is going to have access to all of your custom applications, mark the All Apps checkbox. (When you do this, all of the other boxes will be marked automatically.)
   2. Hit Escape to exit the Apps list.

*When you grant a user permission to an App, the system accounts for the cameras that the user has access to, so there may be no need to grant and revoke standard permissions again. If you want to keep your typical permissions separate from the Apps permissions, just skip the Permissions tab.

2. You may also use the Apps field to grant access to specific custom applications.
   1. For each of the applications the group needs to access, mark the corresponding checkbox.
   2. Press Escape when you finish selecting Apps.
   3. To remove an application, click on the Apps field, then unmark the App you wish to eliminate from the group. (Click Escape to exit the Apps field.)

Finalizing the Permission Group

1. After all of the permissions are set, press the Save Group button.

Here is a view of the new Permission Group once it has been saved.