StreamStudio user profiles

StreamStudio user profiles are used to access the StreamStudio web applications via the StreamStudio web portal.

The StreamStudio user profiles are stored in user directories. However, you can also access StreamStudio without a user directory. For example, if the company is small and does not have a user directory, or if you want to demonstrate StreamStudio without a directory connection. In this case, the only available user is the application domain administrator. See Application domain administrator with System Manager role below.

User directories

Most often, the StreamStudio user profiles are stored in user directories, connected to directory servers. The directory servers must support the LDAP protocol. You can either use Microsoft® Active Directory® or a generic LDAPv3 compliant directory, for example OpenDS.

Internal and external users

The users are either internal users (for example, company employees), or external users (for example, company customers). StreamStudio can authenticate users from a single user directory (with internal and external users in separate locations) or from multiple user directories (with internal and external users in different user directories).

You configure the user directories for the internal and external users in Control Center. For more information, see OpenText StreamServe Control Center User Guide.

Associating users with roles

You must associate the user profiles with roles, for example administrator, call center personnel, etc. Depending on role, the users have different access rights to the StreamStudio web applications and to stored documents.

For internal users, you define the roles using the Administrator web application. For external users, you define the roles in the Customers web application. For more information, see the StreamStudio online help.

Defining access for roles

Each role has either no access, full access, or basic access to the StreamStudio web applications. The default basic accesses to the web applications are listed in the StreamStudio online help.

You can modify the basic accesses using the Administrator and Customers web applications. For example, you can define a role that only has access to the Collector web application and to invoices sent to certain customers. For more information, see the StreamStudio online help.

Application domain administrator with System Manager role

To define roles and accesses, you must log on to the StreamStudio web portal.

The first time you log on, you must log on as the application domain administrator. This administrator is defined in Control Center, and is by default assigned the System Manager role in StreamStudio. For more information, see OpenText StreamServe Control Center User Guide.

When logged on as the application domain administrator, you can define new roles. For example, you can define a role with StreamStudio System Manager rights and assign this role to a user in the user directory.

Note:

The application domain administrator can be used as an emergency user, since the administrator is available even if all other users are locked out.

Note:

We do not recommend to create and edit document definitions and resources in Composition Center when logged on as application domain administrator. Document definitions and resources created by the application domain administrator can only be accessed by the application domain administrator.