Environment Permissions

In Semaphore 5.2 (and greater) you now have the ability to specify environment-level publishing permissions. This allows you to grant specified groups or users the ability to publish a model to a particular environment. By default, no users have the ability to publish even if the “Publisher Plugin” is installed.

Updating Environment Permissions

For users assigned the “Semaphore Super Administrators” role (see Authentication for details on roles and how to set them) the environment permissions are shown in “Studio” in the “Services” section under “Environment Permissions”, as follows:

1. Login to Studio.
2. Click the “Services” menu option (at the top of the page; note that this option will only be shown for users assigned the “Semaphore Administrators” or “Semaphore Super Administrators” role).
3. Click on the “Environment Permissions” option (on the left of the page).
4. Click on which environment you wish to update (in the middle of the page) which will then show the list of permissions already assigned (if any).

On the screen shown, you can search for a user/group that you wish to set permissions for by typing it in the space provided then click the “Add User/Group” button to add them to the list. If you are not not assigned the “Semaphore Super Administrators” role this information will be read-only.

Once the user/group is in the “Permissions” list, specify whether they have one of the following permission in the “Permission” drop down:

• Publisher - Allows the specified user/group to be given publishing permissions for any model.
• Administrator - Allows the specified user/group to be given publishing permissions for any model and allows the ability to update the Classification Server rulenets using “Rulenet Manager”.

To remove a specific permission click the red “x” button beside the relevant entry.

Updating Model Publish Permissions

Once relevant environment permissions are granted, the model-specific permissions are updated as follows:

1. Login to Studio.
2. Go into Knowledge Model Management by clicking on the “Models” link in the “Modelling” section of the Studio landing page.
3. For the relevant model go into the “Model Settings” screen (there are many ways of doing this, for example, click the “three dot” context menu for the model and select “Edit Model Settings”, or open the model and click on the “Model Settings” link on the left side of the page).
4. If present, in the “Edit model settings” pop-up click on the “More Options” link (Semaphore 5.2 and earlier)

The users/groups assigned permissions for the model will be listed here along with a “Settings” button that appears in the “Publisher” column. The “Settings” button allows you to set the environment-specific publisher settings for the user/group indicated, as follows:

• Master and Tasks - Allow the indicated user/group the ability to publish the master and task versions of the model.
• Master - Allow the indicated user/group the ability to publish the master version of the model only (not any tasks).
• Tasks - Allow the indicated user/group the ability to publish tasks only (not the master version of the model).
• None - Do not allow the indicated user/group the ability to publish.

By default, users do not have the ability to publish (setting “None”) so you will need to set the “Publisher” setting to one of “Master and Tasks”, “Master”, or “Tasks” before they will be able to publish the model.

Press the “Save” button after you have completed your changes so that they are saved.