The administrator has the full rights for managing the system included the creation/management of different groups and users (Fig. 1).

 
 

Figure 1: Administration Tool

 

The Administrator Profile has special privileges that allow for different management activities:
                                               
·       Full rights on creating new groups and new users
·       Rights to change users/groups’ profiles
·       Full rights on creating/editing/deleting new/old data
 

This profile should be assigned only to one/two persons administrating the site.


The user with administrator privileges can manage the creation of various groups corresponding to the various contributors/users (fig. 2) of the database



Figure 2: Groups Management

 

Each group has a number of users with different profiles (user administrator/editor/guest) as follows (fig. 3).

User Administrator Profile:

·       Full rights on creating new users within the own group
·       Rights to change users profiles within the own group
·       Full rights on creating/editing/ deleting new/old data


Editor Profile:

·       Full rights on creating/editing/ deleting new/old data

 

It should be assigned only to all users uploading and editing data.

 

Guest Profile:            

·       Data /Download.

 

It should be assigned to authorized users that need to download password-protected data.




Figure 3: User Management

 

 

Each group will have different data accessibility privileges (fig.4) for each record inserted in the system, depending from the setting of the Data Owner concerning: View, Download, Edit, Delete and Dynamic.