The latest release to Incident Check is out and active, and here is rundown of the most significant change – Report Group Access Restriction.
Many of our customers need to limit access to reports for different divisions of their companies. Currently, we have two access levels – Reporters and Administrators. Reporters add and edit their own reports and can only see what they have entered, whereas Administrators see and have access to everything.
However, there is an in-between access level that we have now addressed. The challenge from the technical point of view was how to provide this functionality in a way that supports all of our various customers from the many different industries that have a strong safety component to them.
We have done this through our report groups, the current mechanism for ‘tagging’ reports with company specific information – things like Division, Contractor, Operating Company, Supervisor, and many others defined by our users. Now you can assign users into one or more of these groups and they will only see the appropriately tagged reports.
For people contemplating using this mechanism, all that is needed is to decide what characteristics you would like to use to restrict access, and then use the Settings area (available to admins only) to make this a locked and mandatory group. Then simply add people to that group.
We are very excited to hear how our customers start using this feature and we are looking forward to feedback.