Family Scanner

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Last updated: Sept 28, 2018 by Elena Kolesnik

Scanning

  1. Allows you to filter the Jira users by a certain criteria (see below) and then group them by common permission DNA™ for better management.

2. Calculates effective rights for a set of users grouped by a certain criteria. There are two criteria you can filter users by:

    • e-mail - analyze effective rights starting from a set of users with common e-mail keywords.
    • group - analyze effective rights starting from a set of users who are members of the selected group.

As always, you have the option to include or not the dynamic permissions in the scan.

Results

The result is a set of families.

Families are sets of users grouped by common DNA™. This means that the users in a family may have different permissions for different projects, but for each project they all have the same permissions with identical permission sources.

For more information about families, see Managing Families.

When moving a user into a family, the permissions of that users will change immediately.

Advices

Besides calculating effective rights for a set of users grouped by a certain criteria, this tab highlights certain situations based on the DNA™ of each family. We call them advices.

They are displayed as a warning icon at the end of the project row applied to or at the end of the global permissions row. To see the effective advice you have to hover over the warning icon.

This helps you to see useless permissions within projects.  For example,  it warns you when:

  • users don’t have Jira Users global permission, but they have certain other permissions
  • users have certain project-related permission but they don’t have permission to browse that project
  • users can create issues on the project but they can’t see them (they don’t have the Browse Projects permission)

When Jira is private, it warns you when group “Anyone” is in Global Permission. This means that even if you don’t want public users to login, Anyone can take advantage of global permissions.


The number of families per page is configurable. By default, a single family per page is displayed.

Starting with Rights DNA™ 2.0.3, the default number of families displayed per page is 10.

Adding Predefined Families

To add a predefined family to the family set you have to click the Add Predefined Family button in the upper-right corner of the family set. A dialog is displayed allowing you to choose a family defined in the Define Families tab.

You can change the name for the family before adding it. Bear in mind that you cannot have two families with the same name for the same scanning criteria.

  

For more information about defining families, see Define Families.

Saving

You can save your families by clicking the Save button at the bottom of the page. In the Family Browser tab you are able to browse through the saved sets of families by name.

 


You must enter a name for the permission set before saving.


You can not save two sets of families scanned by the same criteria. The results will be overwritten.

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