Description

The "Groups" menu allows an administrator to manage users' access rights to their companies' various services. Once they have selected one of their companies, they may:

• Step 1: Create a user group: this group comprises a subset of accounts linked to the company.
• Step 2: Authorise the group to access one or several of the company's services: the group's members then have access to services enabled via specific permissions. By default, members have access to the full scope of enabled services (e.g. to all connection points for the Contract Power Exceedance Notification service). Note that when you enable specific permissions for a service, only the members of the groups concerned have access to this service.
• Step 3: Define the scope of services for the group: it is possible to customise the scope of permissions granted to the group for each specific service enabled in step 2. This makes it possible to restrict access to a given list of points.

Operating mode

RTE has produced a tutorial to help you:

Practical example

Your company, ACME, is comprised of two entities: ACME1 and ACME2.

ACME1 has two connection points: P1 and P2.

ACME2 has one connection point: P3

You want ACME1 users to have access to the Contract Power Exceedance Notification (CPEN) service for this entity's connection points only. * You want ACME2 users to have access to the Contract Power Exceedance Notification service for all the company's connection points.

Required actions

• Create two user groups: G1 composed of ACME1 users and G2 composed of ACME2 users
• Enable G2 to access the CPEN service. No other action is required. By default, the members of this group have access to the full scope of the service.
• Enable G1 to access the CPEN service.
• Customise the scope of G1 for the CPEN service by selecting only ACME1's connection points

Creating or modifying a user group

The groups are defined and specific for each of your companies.

When you create a group, only the accounts with statuses other than "activation pending" can be added to it.

Once the group has been created, you can modify the list of members at any time, adding users to it or deleting users from it.

You have a log of all changes made to a group.

Enabling a group to access one or more services

The permissions are defined and specific for each of your companies.

You can manage the access that a group from one of your selected companies has to the same company's services by clicking on the "Permissions" link. To do this, click on the enable/disable button on the relevant line for the desired service.

When you enable a service for a group, all members of the group have access to the full scope of this service.

If you disable all specific permissions for a service for all of your groups, then all the selected company's users will once again have access to the service.

Defining the scope of services for a group

You may restrict the scope of a service to which a group's members have access by clicking on the "Customise" link next to the enabled service. You will see:

• Your company's entities and their service points
• Other companies' entities and their service points for which you have received a mandate

By default, the entire scope is selected. If the scope has already been customised, only the entities and companies for which at least one service point is selected appear.

You may restrict the permissions to the scope of your choice by taking action on:

• The selected list of points.
• All of an entity's points
• All of a company's points

Managing default permissions

For each of your companies, if you do not grant specific access rights, all the linked users will have access to the services for all of the points to which this company has access.

Once you manage specific permissions for a data service, only the group members in question have access to the service.

Each of your companies has a default group whose membership includes all accounts linked to this company. You cannot modify this group. The group's default permissions can be viewed by clicking on the "Default Permissions" link on the "My Groups" screen.

You cannot disable default permissions. They are automatically disabled when you enable specific permissions for a group for a given service.

However, you can re-enable default permissions for one or more of your companies’ services. In this case, if you had assigned specific permissions to certain groups, they are disabled.

Please note

The access rights of users in your companies to view private data are managed on a per-data type basis (metering data, system data, physical data) and on a per-status basis (raw and/or validated).