June 2021 Release Notes

Release date: 21st June 2021

New ground permissions

A lot of ground owners have asked to be able to delegate specific editor permissions to one or many ground members. Well now they can!

Ground owners can now choose which members will be able to create and manage ground resources, while letting the other members have “view only” access.

These granular permissions can be set to existing members, or while adding a new member.

Example:
As the owner of your Garden ground, you can set different permissions for your colleagues. Hence, Erica can be an “Editor” for your Devices (in the Device Permission segment), since she’s responsible for device management and related gateways. However, she will remain as “Viewer” for the Application Permissions segment. On the other hand, Michael can be an Editor of the Application Permissions, since he needs to manage the “Sensor Map” app, which shows all the data of the Garden ground. Finally, if you set all the other members to “Viewers”, they can still fully consume and derive intelligent insights over ground data, while you don’t have to worry about someone deleting any precious resource by mistake.

What has changed

We’ve made sure to migrate all the existing ground members to the new system of ground permissions according to the once set Resource management permissions for any ground.

• If your ground had Resource management permissions set to Owner, then all ground members will be Viewers for all ground resources. You can now choose if you would like to delegate “Editor” permissions to someone.

• If your ground had Resource management permissions set to Members, then all ground members will be Editors for all ground resources. Now is the chance to go through the list of members, and set particular permissions exactly as you want.

The one change that did happen is about members creating and managing ground pinboards.

• From now on ground pinboards behave the same as other ground resources (devices, rules, applications, etc):
  • All ground pinboards are visible to all ground members, regardless of who has created them
  • All ground pinboards can be changed by a ground owner or any member with Editor permissions
• If a ground member has Application permissions set to Viewer then he:
  • Can view all ground pinboards
  • Can’t create new pinboards or manage the old ones
• If ground member has Application permissions set to Editor then besides viewing everything, she:
  • Can create new ground pinboards
  • Can change or delete any ground pinboard, even if another ground owner or member had created them

📘 Read more about Ground permissions