Introduction to Resource Security

When P6 Professional is connected to a P6 EPPM database, the administrator, using P6, can restrict a user's access to resource information.

When P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database, the administrator can restrict a user's access to resource information.

The administrator can enable or disable resource security for each user. When resource security is disabled, the user has access to all resources. When resource security is enabled, the user has access to either none of the resources or a selected part of the resource hierarchy.

How does resource security work?

To enable resource security, the administrator assigns each user to a resource node in the resource hierarchy. This is the user's root node. Then, the position of the root node in the resource hierarchy determines the resources to which the user has access. Once assigned to a resource node, the user has access only to the root node and all of its children.

The administrator can give each user access to the following:

• All Resources
  The user has access to all resources with no restriction. This option disables resource security.
  For Admin superusers, resource security access settings are ignored; they are always granted All Resources access.
• No Resources
  The user has no access to resources. This is the default resource access to new users. Also, if a resource is deleted from the resource hierarchy, users that previously had been assigned to the deleted resource automatically get no access to resources.
  If a user has no resources access, all global resource-related privileges are ignored.
• Resource node (Selected Resources)
  The user has access to the assigned resource node and its children. You can assign only one node to a user. Multiple resource nodes are not supported.

Notes

• When connected to a P6 EPPM database: You need the appropriate global privilege to manage resource security.

When connected to a P6 Professional database: You need Add/Edit/delete Users global privilege to manage resource security.

• In the Resource Assignments window you still have access to current project resources.

Example

The following examples illustrate how resource security applies to users assigned to different resource nodes:  

Related Topics

Root Node

Admin superuser

Current Project Resources