Performing user administration

You can perform user administration and update the database from HCL Compass Designer. You can use either the User administration window in HCL Compass Designer, or the API, to create new user accounts and groups and manipulate the attributes of existing accounts. When you use the API, new objects you create are automatically updated in the schema repository, but they are not updated in any associated user databases until you specifically call the UpgradeMasterUserInfo method of the corresponding Database object.

To create a new account, call the CreateUser method. This method returns a new User object, which you can fill in with the user's account information, including the user's name, phone number, e-mail address, and access privileges. You can also subscribe the user to one or more databases.

In order to:

• Get a User object for an existing user, call the GetUser method of the AdminSession Object, or iterate through the objects in the Users method.
• Create a new group, call the CreateGroup method. This method returns a new Group object, to which you can add new users.
• Get an existing group, call the GetGroup method, or iterate through the Groups.
• Add a user to a group, call the AddUser method of the Group object.