Understanding User Roles

Learn about Cognosos user roles and feature access.

Regardless of vertical/industry, the User Management module and user roles largely function in the same manner. All users are assigned a login and user role by the Administrator. Availability of RTLS functions and features is based on the user role. The user roles are:

Guest
Examples might include vehicle vendors, transport buyers, consigners
View Only
Standard User
Administrator

Refer to the table below for feature availability based on user role. 

Feature

Guest

View Only

Standard

Admin

 

Dashboard (page view)

x

x

x

x

 

Map (page view)

x

x

x

x

 

My Lot (page view)

x*

x

x

x

 

Tag Attach/Replace/Detach 

   

x

x

 

User Management

     

x

 

Events

 

x

x

x

 

Subscriptions

x

x

x

x

 

Notifications

 

x

x

x

 

Support Tools 

x

x

x

x

 

Task Management (create tasks)

 

 

 

x

 

Task Management (task lifecycle)

 

 

x

x

x

Zone Management 

     

x

 

Application Settings 

     

x

 

*Availability of some views + functions based on user role

If you believe that you should have certain functionality available and do not have access to the function or feature, please speak with your company's Cognosos RTLS Administrator.