Dialog 'Project Settings' - 'Users and Groups'

Symbol: _cds_icon_user_groups

Function: This dialog is for the configuration of the user management for the current project.

Call: Menu “Project Project Settings”, category “Users and Groups”

Tab 'User'

Displays the users and their memberships in groups
“Add”	Opens the “Add User” dialog.
“Edit”	Opens the “Edit User” dialog.
“Delete”	An error message appears if you attempt to delete the last user of a group, since a group must have at least one member.

Table 575: “Add User / Edit User”
Input fields for setting up a new user account or changing an existing one
“Active”	: You may use the user account, default : The user cannot log in. If he attempts to login again with incorrect login data, this can result in automatic deactivation of the account; see below: Settings.
“Memberships”	List of all user groups that you have defined in addition to the group “Everyone” (to which each new user automatically belongs). <group name> : the new user belongs to the group.

Table 576: “Export/Import”
“Export Users and Groups”	The command opens the standard dialog for saving a file in the local file system. You can store the users and groups definitions of the project in a file *`‎.users‎` in xml format.
“Import Users and Groups”	Export users and groups opens the standard dialog for browsing the local file system for a file. Search for a file with extension *`‎.users‎` in order to import the users and groups definiitions, stored in this file, into the project.

Tab 'Groups'

Display of the groups and their members. A group can also be a member of a group.
“Add”	Opens the “Add Group” dialog.
“Edit”	Opens the “Edit Group” dialog.
“Delete”	If you delete a group, the user accounts of the members remain unchanged. You cannot delete the groups “Everyone” and “Owner”.

On button “Export/Import” please see above the “User” paragraph.

Tab 'Settings'

Display of the groups and their members in a tree structure. A group can also be a member of a group.

“Maximum number of authentication trials”

_cds_icon_option_activated (standard) : If the user has attempted to login with an incorrect password the number of times specified here, the user account is deactivated.

_cds_icon_option_deactivated : The number of the unsuccessful attempts is unlimited

“Automatic logoff after time of inactivity”

_cds_icon_option_activated : The user is automatically logged out if CODESYS does not register any user actions by mouse or keyboard during the time period (minutes) specified here.