Creating a permission preset

In the User Manager dialog, read and write permission settings for users can be stored in permission presets. These can then be applied to other projects, that is, the users will automatically get read and write permissions according to the settings stored in the permission preset.

1. From the Network menu open the User Manager dialog.
2. Below the “Permission Presets” column click the plus sign.

   A dialog for the naming of the new permission preset opens.

3. Type in the desired name and click OK.

   The permission preset is created and added to the list.

   

   The “User Pool” column to the right lists all the users who have entered a user name, and who have been online and established in the network at some point (note that users do not have to be online to be listed here).

   However, there may also be instances when you want to add a user who is offline and has not been established in the network. If this is the case, the user is not available in the User Pool list, but you can still add him to a permission preset in the following way:

4. Below the “User Pool” column click the plus sign.

   A user with a generic name – “User #” – is added to the list.

5. Type in the desired name.

   The user you’re adding may have decided on a user name and entered it, but has been offline and therefore not yet established in the network. In this case, you can enter that name if you know it. Otherwise, enter a name of your own choice and later let the user know which name to use.

   

   The next step is to add users to the permission preset.

6. Make sure the preset is selected in the “Permission Presets” column.
7. In the “User Pool” column, select the users you want to add to the permission preset.

   To select several users, hold down Shift or Ctrl/Cmd and click on the user names.

8. When you have selected the users you want to add, click the Arrow symbol to the left of the “User Pool” column.

   The users you selected will now be added to the “User” column in the middle of the dialog.

   The next thing to do is to define the read and write permissions for the added users. In the Read and Write columns, the read and write permissions for each user can be specified. By default each added user has both read and write permission.

9. If you do not want a user to have read or write permission, click the corresponding column to deactivate the permissions.
   Note

   Having write permission automatically means to also have read permission.

Result

When you have added the desired users and specified their read and write permissions, the preset is complete. The permission preset will now be available for use.

Permission presets apply to entire projects. When a permission preset is loaded, the read and write permission settings in it are valid for the entire project. However, you can also specify separate permissions for each track.

Note

It is also possible to create a permission preset in the Project Sharing and Permissions dialog.