In a new project, security management is enabled by default. To change the enabling status of the security manager and to configure the general parameters, select the Security item from the Configure menu: the system displays the dialog shown in the figure:


General tab

 

The General tab contains the general configuration parameters of the security management system: 


Enable security management 

If selected, enables system security management, making the access restrictions set effective; disabling the management, the system does not check the access restrictions set, allowing full operation to any user and / or in the absence of a connected user.

User name minimum length

Specifies the minimum length of a user name.
The name of a user represents the unique identifier in the system.
By specifying a value greater than 0, the system prevents the creation of users with a Name that is shorter than the specified number of characters, both during development and at run time.

Minimum password length

Specifies the minimum length of the password.

Entering a value other than 0, the system prevents a user to define an access keyword  (password) of length less than the specified number of characters, both in development phase, which at run-time.

Maximum login retries 

By specifying a value other than 0, the system locks a user who has made a number of attempts to login with incorrect password equal to that specified.
A blocked user can later be restored by the Administrator.
The value 0 allows an unlimited number of attempts.



Security Areas tab

The Security Areas tab allows you to define descriptions for the 27 security zones (identified by the letters A to Z) available in the system.
These data are purely descriptive and allow to identify more easily the areas in the configuration phase of access restrictions on the command elements.