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A role is intended for assigning a group of users individual rights and permissions for administration, management and/or monitoring of individual components of Axxon Next.

To register a new role, perform do the following:

1. At the end of the list of the system roles, click the Create link.
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   The new role is will be added to the system, with its properties displayed on the right side.
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2. Enter a name for the role in the corresponding field (1).
   

3. Select the level of map access access level to the maps for users with the current role (2). 

   Access level	Description
   View only	You can only view maps
   View/move/scale	You can move and scale maps
   Full access	All options available

   
   

4. If it is necessary you need to limitthe access of users of a given role to all system archives, you can specify the retention time ( archive depth ) limit in hours in the Archive depth viewing restriction field (3). If no limit is set, users may access the entire Video Footagevideo footage.

5. Set access permissions for Axxon Next functions (4). Access can be restricted to such features as:
   
   1. Archive search (see Video surveillance in Archive Search mode).
   2. Adding a camera to a layout in live video mode (see Adding cameras to cells).
   3. Access to private comments.
   4. Adding and editing presets for PTZ cameras (see Selecting a preset).
   5. Alarms Management (see Video surveillance in Alarm Management mode).  No access : −users have no access to alarm videos. View only : −users can view alarm videos but they can't evaluate alarms. Full access : −users can view alarm videos and evaluate alarms. 

   6. Creating comments (see Operator comments)  and and protected records in Video Footage video footage (see Protecting video footage from FIFO overwriting).

      Access level	Description
      No access	No comments allowed
      Create	Add comments to archivesthe archive
      Create / Protect	Add comments to archivesthe archive, create protected records
      Create / Protect / Edit / Delete	Add comments to archivesthe archive, create and edit protected records

      
      

   7. Removing videos from the footage archive (see Delete a part of an archive).
   8. Allow unprotected export (see Frame export, Standard video export). Set No to require setting a password for exported images and video (see Exporting Frames and Video Recordings).
   9. Exporting frames and video recordings (see Exporting Frames and Video Recordings).

   10. Editing layouts (see Editing layouts).

   11. Minimizing the Client to the system tray (see Interface of the Axxon Next Software Package).
   12. Managing an Axxon domain (see Axxon Domain operations).

   13. Access to the Web server (see Working with Axxon Next Through the Web Client).

   14. Show captions (see Viewing titles from POS terminals).
   15. Show faces (see Masking faces).
   16. Viewing the system log (see The System Log).

   17. Context menu of a video camera in a viewing tile (see Viewing Tile Context Menu).

   18. View masked video (see Setting up privacy masking in Video Footage, Specific settings for people masking).

6. Configure the access rights to the following interfaces (5):

   1. to the Layouts tab. This parameter applies to both the main Client and the Web Client client (see Web client's GUI).

   2. to video camera groups in the Hardware tab and to video camera groups in the layout interface;.

   3. For Objects Panel panel (see Objects Panel) and Camera Search Panel search panel (see Camera Search Panel).

7. Configure access rights to the Settings tabs and to the system error messages (6).

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   If you set the User Permission Settingssettings parameter to Device access rights only, all users of the given role will be permitted to change only access rights to connected devices.

   
   

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   If the Programming Setupsetup is not available for the user role, the user will not be able to use the created macros until the appropriate rights are granted.

   
   

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   Error messages are displayed in real time in the Layouts interface.

   
   

8. Set the parameters to apply the four-eyes eye principle (7):

   1. If the administrator has to confirm the launch of export for users of this role , (see Exporting Frames and Video Recordings). select the appropriate role in the Supervisor for access to export list (see Exporting Frames and Video Recordings).

   2. If the administrator has to confirm the login of users of this role (see Starting an Axxon Next Client), select the corresponding role in the Supervisor for authorization in client list (see Starting an Axxon Next Client).

9. If you need to grant the users in this role permissions only for a certain period of time, select a Time schedule (8) from the list. These users will not be able to use their permissions outside of the selected time schedule.

10. Configure the rights to manage connected Clients' monitors by setting permissions for each Server on an Axxon domain (9). A user who has management permissions for the monitors of a particular Server can manage monitors of any Client connected to that Server.

11. Set access permissions for access to hardware and archives on an Axxon domain (10). You can set permissions for all Server devices, for a specific device (the Devices tab) or a group of devices (the Groups tab, see Configuring video camera groups). You cannot switch tabs before you have saved the newly created role. You should save your changes while editing permissions in any tab and then you get access to another tab.

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    If a camera belongs to different groups that have different access settings, then the last applied set access permission is applied to the camera.

    
    

    Device	Access permissions	Description
    Video camera	No access	You cannot access the device
    	Archive only	You can only view video footage in archive
    	Live in Armed mode	You can view video from the camera only when the camera is armed
    	Live	You can view live video from the camera. Other functions and device configuration are not available
    	Live/Archive	You can view live and recorded video from the camera. You cannot arm/disarm/configure the camera
    	Live/Archive/Control	All functions available. You cannot configure the device
    	Live/Archive/Control/Configure	All functions and settings available
    Microphone	No access	The user is unable to You cannot listen to live sound from the video camera. The user is unable to You cannot listen to sound recordings from the archive
    	Live Audio	The user is able to You can listen to live sound from the video camera (the microphone should be turned on). The user is unable to You cannot listen to sound recordings from the archive
    	Live Audio and Archive	All functions are available
    PTZ	No access	The user You cannot control the PTZ device
    	Minimum level	The user You can control the PTZ device with the corresponding priority (see Controlling a PTZ Camera)
    	Low level
    	Medium level
    	High level
    	Maximum level
    Archive	No access	Access is not provided to this archive
    	Full access	Archive is available for all functions

    You can configure group rights for accessing devices and archives of a particular Server. To do so, select an access level for the Server object. Depending on the selected level that is chosen, particular access levels are automatically configured for the devices and archives of the relevant Server (see the table).:

    Server access level	Device/archive	Device/archive access level
    Custom	-	Access levels for devices and archives are set manually
    No access	-	No access to devices and archives
    Archive Only	Video camera	Archive only
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	PTZ	Medium level
    	Archive	Full access
    Live in Armed Mode	Video camera	You can view armed cameras
    	Microphone	Live Audio
    	PTZ	Medium level
    	Archive	No access
    Live	Video camera	You can view live video
    	Microphone	Live Audio
    	PTZ	Medium level
    	Archive	No access
    Live/Archive	Video camera	You can view live and recorded video
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	PTZ	Medium level
    	Archive	Full access
    Live/Archive/Control	Video camera	All functions. Settings Configuration not available.
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	PTZ	Medium level
    	Archive	Full access
    Live/Archive/Control/Configure	Video camera	All functions + settings configuration available.
    	Microphone	Live Audio and Archive
    	PTZ	Maximum level
    	Archive	Full access

    In addition, you may can select the level of access to one camera and extend it to other cameras. Please follow the steps belowTo do it, do the following:

    1. Select the access level for a required camera.

    2. Click the button and select cameras the same settings should be applied to.
       

       To quickly select multiple cameras, hold down the Shift key, select the first and last cameras camera the settings should be applied to. Selecting any camera from highlighted ones will result in selecting them all. 

12. Select the appropriate access level to set the ability possibility to manually run all or some macros (see Configuring Macros and Counters) from the Layouts interface (11).

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    By default, created macros are available only to users from the admin group. Users outside the admin group can create macros if they have the permissions to create them, but they . They cannot use them until they have the permissions to use them.

    
    

13. Click the Apply button to save the role.

The new role has now been created.

You can copy Rolesroles. To do it, follow the steps below:

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1. Select the role to delete.

2. Click the Delete button.


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   You cannot delete a role if the user through which you logged into the system who is logged in belongs to that role.

   
   

3. Click the Apply button.

The role has now been deleted. All users under who belong to this role will also be deleted.