linkSecurity™
Simplify the Creation of Folder Access Control in Windchill Pro/INTRALINK® 9.X and PDMLink®
Many companies view security of information as one of their highest priorities. Windchill Pro/INTRALINK® 9.X or PDMLink® 9.X can provide users with Folder Access Control, but organizing and maintaining those folders could take administrators countless hours and include steps in multiple user interfaces. Using linkSecurity™, the same work can get done automatically in a fraction of the time, saving the user time, money and a major headache.
Other benefits of linkSecurity include:
- Assured quality with protection against human errors
- Automating with the latest and up-to-date technology
- Upgrade and future proof
LinkSecurity is PTC® approved and allows companies to improve efficiency and control security settings in an easy-to-use format.
When you use linkSecurity, you can relax and let automation do the work!
Contact Us to learn more, schedule a demo, or request a quote.
Fishbowl Solutions' LinkSecurity Specifications
Purpose: To provide folder access control functionality in Windchill Intralink 9.x
System Requirements: All PTC supported platforms for PDMLink and Intralink 9.x
Key Concepts:
- Before folder-level access can be assigned a new administrative domain created for that folder.
- Subfolders will automatically inherit the user/group access that is assigned to a parent folder (unless separate administrative domains are created for the subfolders.)
- Once configured product managers, superusers and administrators can add and remove users and group to the folder.
Use linkSecurity when:
- migrating from Intralink 3.x with folder level security to Intralink 9.x +
- contractors and other shared resources are engaged in partial project work
- security constraints prohibit some team members from full assembly access
- users work for short periods of time on many separate and distinct projects
- users work on many different Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) for different projects
- you have authoring controls in place
- you want to spend your time engineering not administering
- 10% or more of your folders have access controls on them
- you need to ensure consistency and avoid "fat finger" errors
What is linkSecurity?
Can't I control folder access within Windchill out-of-the-box?
Should I use linkSecurity?
Is a User Interface (UI) provided?
How does linkSecurity Work?
How many folders can linkSecurity handle at once?
Will linkSecurity cause problems with future upgrades?
Is linkSecurity approved by PTC?
I have PDMLink, is linkSecurity for me?
Why Not Use Ad Hoc Access Control?
How can I find out more?
What is linkSecurity?
linkSecurity is an automation application for Windchill 9.x. It allows PDMLink and IntraLink to have the same types of sophisticated folder-level access controls that were available in IntraLink 3.4.
Can't I control folder access within Windchill out-of-the-box?
Yes. Although some will say it is not possible, it is in fact possible to set folder-level security like that available in IntraLink 3.4 within Windchill 9.1 using PDMLink or IntraLink's out-of-the-box features. The problem is that, while it is possible, it requires a complex series of approximately 20+ clicks, per user, per folder. The time and headache this causes adds up quickly. linkSecurity provides an automated alternative to this process. For a step-by-step guide on how to manually control folder access out-of-the-box see the slide share presentation featured in the Web Preview tab.
Should I use linkSecurity?
Any organization using Windchill's PDMLink or IntraLink who wants folder-level user access controls should use linkSecurity. This program makes a user security migration process that could take several weeks of manual entry take less than a day. It also prevents the human errors likely in high-volume manual data entry, and allows future changes to security settings to be made quickly and easily
Is a User Interface (UI) provided?
Yes.
How does linkSecurity Work?
linkSecurity works by automating the clicking process typically needed to set folder-level user access controls. It does not alter the underlying code of the Windchill Suite applications.
How many folders can linkSecurity handle at once?
This is a factor of how many objects are in the folder. Because each object inherits the security structure of its folder parent, folders with many objects will take several minutes longer than folders with few objects in them. Fishbowl Solutions has successfully implemented linkSecurity in systems with more than 1100 folders and hundreds of thousands of objects in very short time frames.
Will linkSecurity cause problems with future upgrades?
No. Because linkSecurity doesn't do anything to the original Windchill code, using it to set access controls is as if they were each set manually. It will not have an impact on future upgrades.
Is linkSecurity approved by PTC?
Yes. Fishbowl Solutions is a PTC Gold Partner and linkSecurity is a PTC approved program.
I have PDMLink, is linkSecurity for me?
Possibly. Although you can use linkSecurity, if you have PDMLink with ProjectLink, you don't need linkSecurity because the ProjectLink features allow you to set access controls out-of-the-box much more easily than with stand-alone PDMLink or IntraLink. We are happy to speak with you about solving your security business problems.
Why Not Use Ad Hoc Access Control?
It was determined that Ad Hoc access control should not be used for a couple of reasons. First there is little or no visibility as to what Ad Hoc access control has been granted. Second, since Ad Hoc access control overrides normal life cycle based policies, it is possible for an object that has been promoted to an Active state to be unintentionally modified. Consider the case where a designer is granted Ad Hoc access to modify an object that is at the initial life cycle state. The designer retains the ability to modify the object even after the object is subsequently promoted to Active. Since there is limited visibility to the Ad Hoc access that has been granted, this may be a common occurrence.
How can I find out more?
email mcadsales@fishbowlsolutions.com
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