Empower Tip: User Privileges

In this tip, we will discuss the impact three privileges have on what can or cannot be done while working in the Review window. What happens when a User has a combination of privileges?

Let’s review.

The three privileges in question are: View Quantitation Peak Fields in Review, Allow Calibration & Quantitation in Review, and View Numerical and Textual Results in Review.

What are the different combinations of enabling/disabling these privileges? If we call them P1, P2, and P3 in the order listed in Step 1, we have eight different possibilities.

In this tip, we will explore scenarios 5 -8 as displayed in Figure 2.

What happens if we disable the Allow Calibration & Quantitation in Review privilege and leave the other two privileges enabled? The User can view the quantitation peak fields and all of the other numerical & textual fields, however, the Quantitate tool is not available.

What happens if we disable both the Allow Calibration & Quantitation in Review and the View Numerical and Textual Results in Review privileges and leave View Quantitation Peak Fields in Review enabled? The Peaks table is not visible and the Quantitate tool is not available.

What happens if we disable the View Numerical and Textual Result in Review privilege and leave the other two privileges enabled? The peaks table is not visible and the Quantitate tool is available.

What happens if we disable the View Quantitation Peak Fields in Review and the View Numerical and Textual Results in Review and enable the Allow Calibration & Quantitation in Review enabled? The peaks table is not visible and the Quantitate tool is available.

What can we conclude from these permutations? The View Numerical and Textual Results in Review privilege takes precedence over the View Quantitation Peak Fields in Review privilege.

It’s that easy!