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The BrightSign Network offers a robust set of security and permissions features that allow you to protect your content and maintain the efficiency of your digital-signage system—no matter how large it gets. These security features are scalable: you can choose exactly how complex you want your permissions system to be depending on the needs of your organization.

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The Permissions tab displays whether the user or group is permitted to carry out a certain action. Every possible user action in the BrightSign Network is listed here, divided by category.

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This section will introduce you to common applications of various System Roles. These default roles are great for BrightSign Network accounts with a small amount of users who have clearly defined roles and responsibilities within the organization.

Overview

You are the systems administrator for a small chain of five donut shops located around the city. The chain has just replaced all of their chalkboards used for menus, special offers, and announcements with digital displays powered by BrightSign players, which are linked to the company’s BrightSign Network account. There are many employees who need to use the network in order to keep the store menus and special offers up-to-date. You are faced with several personnel and security challenges when configuring the network, all of which can be solved using the System Roles provided with every BrightSign Network account.

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1. Click the Account button at the top right of the page.

2. Navigate to the Users and Roles tab on the right-hand side of the page.

3. Click the role to which you wish to add the user.

4. Drag and drop a User Card from the User List into the gray field under Assigned Users.

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Being assigned to the Administrators role gives you access to all the features offered on the BrightSign Network. This is the only role that allows you to edit the account status of other users: as a member of Administrators, you can add new users, delete existing users, and assign users to different roles; furthermore, you can create and edit Custom Roles, a feature that will be explained in the Intermediate section of this document.

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This chapter will explain how to create and edit Custom Roles. The roles outlined here are used as examples to explain how to conceptualize and create a Custom Role. The needs of your organization may be different from the examples included in this section.

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1. Click the Account button at the top right of the page.

2. Navigate to the Permissions tab on the right-hand side of the page.

3. Click the Create New Roles button beside the Roles List.

4. Enter a name and (optional) description for the Custom Role.

5. Check the Copy Permissions From checkbox to base the permissions of your Custom Role on a preexisting role. As long as you have the advanced settings enabled on the Account page, you will be able to change all copied permissions.

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This section will explain how to use object permissions in conjunction with Custom Roles to meet the organizational needs of a large digital signage network. 

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1. Click on the Security tab in the Properties window.

2. Assign permissions for the object by roleor by individual user.

   1. In the Assigned Roles tab, click the Add button and select the desired role. Remember that you can only edit permissions for Custom Roles.

   2. In the Assigned Users tab, click the Add button and select the desired user.

   3. You can now choose whether to “Allow” or “Deny” certain actions for a specific Dynamic Playlist, Live Text feed, etc.

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1. Create a Custom Role based on Publishers.

2. Assign all of the store managers to this role.

3. Change the role so that the actions “View Groups” and “Change Schedule” in the Group category are denied.

4. Make sure that each group of players reflects a different store location.

5. Change the object permissions of each group on the network so that each user assigned to the custom Publishers role can only view and modify the group corresponding to his or her store.

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The marketing department wants to upload an announcement for a new flavor of donut in order to test how it will look on a digital display. However, the board of directors is worried that the competition will get wind of this new flavor before it is rolled out across the nation. To minimize the risk of a leak, you want to make sure that, for the moment, only the employees directly involved with testing the announcement have the ability to view, edit, or schedule the presentation.

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