Better Permission Options in myEV
As a farm administrator in myEV, you now have more control over collaboration with your team.
We’ve added a new ‘Read-only’ permission level for collaborators in myEV that limits users to viewing datasets. We’ve also created the ability to give ‘Editor’ access on individual datasets and collectors. Let’s walk through an example showing how to add a new ‘Read-only’ user and add them as an ‘Editor’ to a dataset and a collector.
First, you’ll need to be an owner or an administrator on a farm. If you created the farm you are working with, then you are the owner and will meet this requirement. You’ll also need any team members you want to collaborate with to create myEV accounts – they need these accounts before they can be added to your farm.
Once that’s set, go to your farm details drawer and click on the ‘Collaborators’ button.
In there, you can invite myEV users using the email addresses associated with their accounts. By default, they are added as ‘Read-only’. You can switch their permission levels at this point to ‘Editor’ or ‘Administrator’. To learn more about these levels, check out this article. For the sake of this tutorial, we’ll keep these users as ‘Read-only’.
These users now have access to view datasets on our farm but cannot edit datasets or use data collectors. If you want to give one of these users access to a dataset, simply launch a dataset and click on the ‘Dataset Editors’ tab. Here you can select users that you’d like to give permission to edit the dataset. Once content, click ‘Save Editors’.
The same thing can be done with collectors. Just navigate to the settings of a collector, select users you want to grant access to the collector, and click ‘Save’.
We hope these new permissions options will let you collaborate more effectively in myEV. As always, feel free to contact us if you have any feedback on the platform.
