Access Rights List

This screen is part of the Add New User Wizard.  It can also be access directly by clicking on Admin | Maintain Access Rights.  You can also get to it from the Admin Menu by selecting Maintain Users, Modify or Add a User and click on the Producer Access Button.

Assigning Access Rights

Access Rights are actually assigned through the Admin | Maintain Users feature of the Admin Menu.  They are not assigned through this screen.  The Access Rights List Screen is used to maintain the various combinations of rights that can be assigned to a user.

AccessRightsListScreen

Access Rights List Overview

Access Rights are a feature of MultiProducer and Enterprise licenses only.  Single user and Network systems do not have the ability to grant Access Rights.

Access Rights are what gives a user permission to view and "access" the contacts or clients maintained for a producer.  There are 4 kinds of access rights:

Access To All Contacts

When a user has "Access To All" every name in the database is available for that user to view.  This is usually reserved for management.

Access To One Producer's Contacts

Normally, you would give a producer access to his own contacts and no other clients.

Access To More Than One Producer's Contacts

This feature allows a user to have rights to the contacts of more than one producer.  It is useful when an assistant is assisting more than one producer.

Access To Unassigned Contacts

When the Primary Producer's name is left blank on the View Client Screen, the producer is considered to be unassigned. This would often be used for vendors in the database, or other contacts you would want every user to have access to.

Primary Producer Field Controls Access Rights

The Primary Producer Field on the View Client Screen is the only database field that controls access.  If you want two producers to share access to some clients, but not all clients, AND each producer has their own clients, you should set up a primary producer that contains BOTH of their names.  In this case, the contact record will be an organization, not an individual.  The addressee field in the address will control how the names look to clients in correspondence.

Primary Producer Controls Access Rights

Primary Producer Controls Access Rights

Individual Producer Examples

John Smith

Sam Adams

Shared Producer Examples

Smith and Adams

John Smith and Sam Adams

Smith and Adams Partnership

Smith and Adams Joint Cases

Access Rights vs Security Role Rights

Access Rights are different from Security Role Rights.  Access Rights control WHO you can interact with in Advisors Assistant.  Security Role Rights control what you can do with that contact name.

Access Rights Example

Access to the contacts for which John Adams is the Primary Producer.

Access to all of the contacts in the database.

Security Role Rights Example

The right to delete names.

The right to view insurance information.

The right to change a note.

Maintaining The Access Rights List

The Access Rights List lets you set up as many "sets" of rights as you need to allow users to see various producers' contacts.  Putting something on the list DOES NOT cause any users to have any rights.  You still have to assign the rights to that user.

AccessRightsList

Access Rights List

This is the list in the top window.  Highlighting an item in this list changed the Access To Window at the bottom of the screen.

Add, Modify, Delete Buttons

The Add, Modify, and Delete Buttons apply to the Access Rights List.

Add will let you add a new item to the list and assign one or more producers to the list.

Modify lets you change the producers accessed by the highlighted item on the list.  This will change the access for any user assigned that item.

Delete will remove the item from the list and may deny access to the database for those users assigned the set of rights.

Access To

This window is for information purposes only.  It saves your having to click on modify just to see which producers are accessed by each list item.

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