- Admin User Account
A SOLIDWORKS PDM vault has a special Admin user account, with administrative privileges that no other user accounts have.
- Creating User Accounts
You control access to SOLIDWORKS PDM by creating users. Each vault has a set of users, who can be unique to that vault or also exist as users in other vaults.
- User Information Pop-up
When you mouse over a user name in the SOLIDWORKS PDM user interface, a pop-up window appears. This window provides user details and links to help you communicate with other users in your company.
- Deleting a User Account
You delete a user account to remove it from a vault. This does not remove the user name and password from the server. The user account can continue to be active in another vault.
- Changing a User Account Password
When you are logged in with administrator permissions, how you change a user account password depends on the type of user login (SOLIDWORKS PDM, Windows, or LDAP).
- Delegating Management of User Account and Group Permissions
You can give users the ability to assign permissions to specific files and folders when they access the vault from the Windows File Explorer.
- Managing Multiple Users Accounts
You can modify properties and settings, view history, or delete more than one user account at a time from a vault's Users dialog box.
- Users/Groups Dialog Box
Use the Users and Groups dialog boxes to modify properties and settings, view history, or delete more than one user or group account at a time.
- Validating User Accounts
The archive server that hosts the vault archive manages user authentication. You can use Validate Logins option to validate the user account.
- Resolving Missing User Login Information
You can manage vault permissions for the user account that has incorrect credentials on the archive server.
- Folder and Workflow State Permissions
The permissions required to access files and items are a combination of folder permissions and state permissions.
- Assigning Folder Rights
You can assign users or groups explicit rights to folders. The method is the same for both.
- Setting Caching Behavior
You can edit user or group profiles to control how files in designated folders are cached and refreshed.
- Permitting Users to See Private State Files
- User Properties - General Properties
Use the user's Properties dialog box to manage users and their rights in a SOLIDWORKS PDM vault.
- User Settings
The behavior of the SOLIDWORKS PDM client is controlled by user settings.
- Managing Users with Groups
To make it easier to manage users, you can create groups whose members inherit the group permissions.