A site administrator may wish to delegate access to their screen network, to allow others to upload content to and maintain the screen network. This is achieved by creating additional user accounts on the system and delegating permissions and access rights to those users.

To create a new user account, click on “Users” in the left-hand menu, then “Add new User”. If you do not see a Users listing, then you do not currently have access to create or modify user accounts.

To modify an existing account, click on the user’s “Login” name. You will then be presented with the Edit User page.

You are able to modify a number of basic settings for each user:

• “Username” – The user will type this when logging in to the administration system
• “Full Name” – The user’s full name. This can be used for reporting purposes.
• “Password” – Set the user’s password. This can be changed by the user upon login.
• "Email Address" - This can be used for email notification about schedules ending and any network problems with the screen.

There are two kinds of email notification messages that can be sent by the Solus system. These are channel status notifications and schedule ending notifications. Channel status messages are sent when there is a problem with the channel, for example it is not powered or no content is being displayed. Schedule ending messages are sent when a schedule is coming to an end. These can both be enabled or disabled from the Edit User page. For schedule ending notification a number of days for the Notification Warning Period must be entered. This is the default number of day's notification for schedules and can be overridden when scheduling an item if you would like more or less notice for a particular schedule ending.

You can specify which screens or groups of screens a user has access to by checking the names in the "Screens" or "Groups" lists, respectively. This will (by default) allow them to schedule content they create to any of the screens selected. It is also possible to set permissions for individual zones, by checking the names of zones in the "Screens" list. Therefore a user can have access to a channel but only allowed to access some of that channel's zones.

Each user can be granted additional usage rights (not selected by default):

• Web Publishing – Allow the user to publish items to a Solus Web channel
• Podcast Publishing (incl. RSS) – Allow the user to publish content items to a Podcast or RSS Feed
• Channel Settings – Grant the user permission to change the settings of screens they have access to (e.g. Screen Volume, Base Channel Images, Opening Hours, etc...)
• Edit Zones - Allow the user to change the Zone Layout and zone positioning on screens they have access to.
• Schedule Alert & Timed Items – Gives the user access to schedule higher priority items on to screens, as well as regular items.
• Access Parent Content – Allows the user to access & modify content that is stored in a parent user account (i.e. the account you are currently logged into)

Lastly, you can set some defaults for each user account (including your own). For example, if a user is normally uploading 45 second long content items, you may wish to change the duration default to 45 seconds (instead of the normal 30 seconds). You can also specify the default schedule length (in days).