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IXIA CCMS Administration Guide for On-Premise and Dedicated SaaS Deployments
Set up single sign-on. Configure CCMS workflows, users roles, groups, permissions, templates, display options, localization methods, and more. Covers Desktop and Web.
Managing roles, groups, and users
This section contains information and instructions for the configuration of roles, groups, and users.
User management in CCMS Desktop

IXIA CCMS Administration Guide for On-Premise and Dedicated SaaS Deployments
Set up single sign-on. Configure CCMS workflows, users roles, groups, permissions, templates, display options, localization methods, and more. Covers Desktop and Web.
- General administration tasks and information
  The Administration role within IXIA CCMS Web enables a user with administrator privileges to access additional functions, including user management, the ability to refresh the server for users, provide templates, adjust Collaborative Review settings, and more.
- Managing roles, groups, and users
  This section contains information and instructions for the configuration of roles, groups, and users.
  - Use CCMS Admin
  - Role and time line management
  - Group management
  - User management in CCMS Desktop
    - Open the User Manager window
      The User Manager window is preferred GUI option for configuring CCMS users.
    - Add a new user using User Manager
      You can add new users to the IXIA CCMS and associate them with the appropriate roles and groups.
    - Make a user a temporary CCMS System Administrator
      You can make a user a IXIA CCMS Administrator if you need someone to take over admin responsibilities for a short time.
    - Clone an existing user using User Manager
      You can create a new user by cloning an existing user.
    - Edit an existing user using User Manager
      You can edit an existing user to change their name or other personal and connection information, as well as to change the roles and groups the user is associated with.
    - Inactivate a user using User Manager
      You can inactivate a user to suspend their access to IXIA CCMS.
    - Delete a user using User Manager
      You can delete users who no longer need access to the CCMS.
    - Edit users.xml directly
      In addition to configuring users through the User Manager, you can also configure roles by editing the users.xml file directly.
  - User management in CCMS Web
    User management functions enable an administrator to change the access privileges for users of IXIA CCMS Web.
- Configuring object workflows
  Workflows capture the stages that various objects pass through during their life cycles. You can configure workflows that reflect your current processes and change those workflows as needed.
- Working with Index Definitions
- Managing access rights
  You can determine which features users have access to by defining access rights. You can configure user access to various IXIA CCMS functions.
- Configuring triggers
- Customizing the CCMS Desktop user interface
  You can customize the CCMS Desktop user interface, based on your enterprise and users.
- Customizing the CCMS Web interface
- Customizing the authoring experience
- Creating and maintaining topic and map templates
  While Information Architects typically create topic and map templates, System Administrators add them to IXIA CCMS to make them available for use by Writers and SMEs.
- Configuring assignments, Collaborative Reviews, and Approvals
- Extending content search
- Customizing spell checking
- Configuring localization
  To take full advantage of IXIA CCMS's powerful and flexible localization features, you can configure the CCMS in multiple ways.
- Configuring DRM functionality
- Customizing output generation
- Setting up email notifications
  You can configure IXIA CCMS Web to send users an email notification when certain events occur.
- Configuring content import
- Extending the Publish feature
- Configuring Project Management settings
  You can configure changes to Project settings, as well as project content such as pie charts, warnings, team workload time intervals, and maximum team member workloads.
- Oxygen Web Author plugins in CCMS Web
  Oxygen provides several plugins for Oxygen Web Author. These plugins modify the behavior of editors in IXIA CCMS Web, such as the Topic Editor and the Map Editor.
- Customizing Oxygen frameworks
  IXIA CCMS uses Oxygen frameworks to deliver much of the authoring functionality. These frameworks can be extended (i.e. customized) to suit any specific authoring needs by using framework extensions.
- Custom report templates
  Users can create and generate custom reports based on queries performed in IXIA CCMS. These reports display the information returned by the query used and also include boilerplate text that serves as the report header, for example.
- Using trace logs
  Trace logs allow you to review the sequence of events and allow you to determine if there is something amiss.
- Maintaining a deployment
  The maintenance tasks required to keep the components running smoothly may fall under the responsibility of one or more individuals in your enterprise.
- Secure communications with SSL
  You can use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to provide secure communications between the IXIA TEXTML Server and the IXIA CCMS components.

User management in CCMS Desktop

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