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User Management Page

Purpose: Allow operators and administrators to modify and manage their own user base within their facility.

About

You can include a User Management Page in your HMI to allow administrators to create and delete HMI users without accessing the HELIO IDE.

This page can also be used to change a user's password in case it is forgotten.

Anatomy

  1. Title and Icon

  2. List of Users


Adding A User

Choose a…

  • Name that will be displayed while the User is signed into the HMI.
  • Password – make sure that you and your users choose strong passwords to hinder unwanted access to your machine.

Finally, grant or restrict the user's access to specific parts of your HMI by assigning different roles. For more details on how to define roles, refer to Define HMI User Roles.

Updating A User In Order To…

  • Change the password
  • Assign or remove roles

Page Properties

General

Title

Will be displayed in the navigation and the page header.

Page Reference

This optional property lets you define unique short code that is human readable and helps to refer to that page without specifying its actual name. This is helpful especially in multilingual environments because

  • It helps your Support-Team to quickly navigate users.
  • It can be picked up by the product manual and documentation.
Example reference in main navigation
Example reference in the page title

Icon

This icon will be displayed in the main navigation, the page header, and inside an embedded navigation of a Page Group.

Navigation

Display this page in navigation

Every page is automatically included in the main navigation. If you do not want this page to be reachable from within the main navigation, uncheck this option. The page will remain accessible and can be opened as an overlay or navigated to directly.

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