Create and edit Roles

Last modified: Monday January 06, 2025.

Create and edit Roles to manage what your users can access in your Alta video security systems.

By default, Alta Video provides two roles. These are:

  • Administrator — by default, Administrators have full permissions, and can create, edit, or delete other Roles and User groups, and can also create new Users and assign their levels of access.
  • Operator — by default, Operators have restricted system access, and cannot access the Appliances, Users, or Rules tools.

You can create additional roles and assign them permissions that suit your system requirements.

System permission roles and device permission roles

You can create two types of roles:

  • System roles can be assigned system wide permissions, such as adding users, creating system rules, and managing audit logs.

  • Device roles can be assigned device permissions, such as viewing live video, adding devices, and viewing alarms.

When you create a user group, you can assign its members a system permission role and any number of device permission roles. For more information, see Create User groups.

Prerequisites

Only users with the Administrator role can create or edit Roles.

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Task — Create or edit a Role

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Users tool Users.
  2. Open Roles Roles.
  3. To create or edit a device permission role, select the Device permissions tab.
  4. To create or edit a system permission role, select the System permissions tab.
  5. To create a new role, click Add new Role Add and enter a name.
  6. To edit a role, select it.
  7. For device permission roles:
    1. Add or remove any required General permissions to assiged to this Role.
    2. Click a tool icon to change individual permissions for that tool.
  8. For system permission roles, add or remove any required permissions.
  9. Click Done.

Task — Delete a Role

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Users tool Users.
  2. Open RolesRoles
  1. Click the RolesRoles.
  2. Select the Role to be deleted. You cannot delete the default Administrator or Operator roles.
  3. Click Remove Role Remove.
    1. If the Role is assigned to a user group, choose another role from the drop-down menu to replace it.
  4. Click Delete.
  5. Click Done.