In some setups you may want to expose your collections to users but do not want them to modify your data or play movies. The protection feature allows you to password protect areas of the application by defining users and their access rights.
Navigate to the application setting and click on the [protect] tab.
Enable protection
To enable protection, check the Enable box. The following warning dialog appears when you activate protection.
When protection is enabled, only the 'admin' user can modify users and disable protection. So before saving make sure you know the admin password. If you don't know it reset it before saving. The default password for admin is 'admin'. The admin user cannot be deleted.
Optionally you can enter a welcome text that is displayed on the login page.
Adding users
To add additional users click on the Add button. A new row is appended to the user list below. Click on the new row to modify the user's information.
You are required to enter user name and password to save the user. The rest of the settings can be left to default if the user is only allowed to view the movie collection. To give this user more access adjust the other settings. A user can be given rights to view or modify setting, view or modify maintenance utilities (which includes backups), play movies, and add/modify movie/person data.
Active/Inactive User
A user can made inactive by unchecking the active checkbox in the user list. The system treats an inactive user the same as if the user did not exist. The benefit of inactivating a user versus deleting a user is you can reactivate that user at a later time without having to recreate him/her.
Auto Login
Auto login is a useful feature if you want users to have some access without having to login. To enable auto login, check the auto login checkbox for one of the users and save your settings. From now on when a user accesses your collection, the system will automatically log that person in using the auto login user. To login as a different user (maybe one with more rights) you can logout and re-login using a different user name. After logging out you wish to return as the auto login user, just navigate back to the home page and system will automatically log you back in.
Login/Logout
When protection is enable, you will see two changes at the bottom of the page. On the right, the current display name will now show the user you are logged in as. In the example below "kaylee" is the user of the display "Office - 46." In the center the text "logout" appears. Clicking on it will log you out and show the login screen
To log in, enter your user name and password and press enter. If you provided a welcome message it will appear above the user name field. In the example below "Craig's Movies" was the welcome message entered in the protect tab. When an invalid user name or password is entered an error message is displayed in red above the the user name field and below the welcome message if any.
Note: The user name and password is passed as clear text.
Reset 'admin' password
If you ever forget the admin password you can force the application to turn protection off by following the steps below:
1) Shutdown the application if it is running.
2) Open a DOS command prompt and change directory to <installdir>/craigworks/movies/bin.
3) Type "start.bat protectoff" and hit Enter. This will start the application and turn off protection. You can then change the admin password and re-enable protection.