Visual Guard for PB Key Features How Does it Work
Visual Guard for PB
   
 
     
 
 
How does it work?
 

What is in Visual Guard:

The Repository: A secure place to stores users, profiles and permissions.

The Visual Guard Engine: a component included in your application that modifies it dynamically according to the user's permissions.


Developer Workshop: An application for developers to create permissions without coding

Profile Manager: An application for administrators for daily User and Identity management.
When using Visual Guard, profile and user management requires no special development skills.
A non technical person (super-user, administrator, head of department...) can easily manage them.
They can declare profiles, grant them permissions and associate them to users.
It releases the IT department from the daily profile and user management. (screenshot)

A sample application integrating Visual Guard

What happens at runtime?

The user logs onto the application
Visual Guard connects to the security repository and retrieves the user's permissions.
The Visual Guard engine then modifies the application according to these permissions.
Example: When a window opens, Visual Guard may hide buttons and filter data.

More info => Getting started

Implementation process:

  1. Add Visual Guard engine to your project and activate the security (just a few lines of code required).
  2. Implement the Visual Guard login window (or use your own login window).
  3. Create a security repository and declare your application in this repository.
  4. Using Developer Workshop, developers define all the permissions available for this application. As a result, a permissions catalog is created. It will be used later (see step 6).
  5. The application is tested, compiled and deployed.
  6. Administrators use Profile Manager to create profiles and grant them permissions from among those defined in the permission catalog. Then those profiles are associated with users.
  7. No technical skill is required: Administrators can be super-users, heads of departments, etc...

Note: If you already have a permission system, you should disable it before using Visual Guard.

More info => Getting started


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What is Visual Guard?

Authentication

Permissions

How does it work?

Examples of Modifications

Technical specifications

 
 
 
Active Directory
 
Re-use AD accounts for authentication
 
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