Modifying the entities of a partition

2025-01-10Last updated

To control the visibility of entities to users in your system, you must first add entities to a partition.

What you should know

When you put related entities, such as cardholders and credentials, into different partitions, users that aren’t authorized to access all the partitions involved might not have all the access rights they need to perform their tasks.
To simplify the partition configuration process, when you add or remove entities from a partition, the system automatically adds or removes their related entities from that partition. The rules applied by the system are as follows:
  • Adding a user group or a cardholder group also adds their members.
  • Adding a user or a cardholder doesn’t automatically add their parent groups.
  • Removing a user group or a cardholder group also removes their members.
  • Removing a user or a cardholder doesn’t automatically remove their parent groups.
  • Adding a cardholder also adds their associated credentials.
  • Removing a cardholder also removes their associated credentials.
  • Adding a credential doesn’t automatically add its associated cardholder.
  • Removing a credential doesn’t automatically remove its associated cardholder.
  • When adding or removing an entity with child entities (such as an area or a role), you must specify if its child entities must be included. If child entities are included, it will add or remove everything nested below the entity.
  • Adding an entity to a partition doesn’t remove it from the other partitions it belongs to. There’s no limit to the number of partitions an entity can belong to.
  • Removing an entity from a partition automatically adds it to the Genetec SC SaaS partition if that entity doesn’t belong to any other user-created partition.
  • You can’t remove an entity from the Genetec SC SaaS if that entity doesn’t belong to any other user-created partition.

Procedure

  1. From the homepage in Genetec Configuration desktop, open any administration task.
  2. (Optional) If there are no partitions displayed, press F4.
  3. Select the partition that you want to modify, and click the Properties tab.
    The entities that belong to the partition are displayed in the Members list.
  4. To add entities to the partition:
    1. Click Add ().
    2. In the Search dialog box, select entities.
    3. Click Select.
  5. To remove entities from the partition:
    1. Select the entities from the Members list.
    2. Click Remove ().
      All changes are immediately applied.
    Tip: Alternatively, you can change the content of partitions directly from the entity tree, using drag-and-drop to move entities, and Ctrl+drag-and-drop to copy entities.

After you finish

Grant access rights to the partition. For more information, see Granting access rights for partitions.