Access control

You can control access to your runtime platform by setting your project to open in kiosk mode at startup. In addition, you can control access to the operator views of your project by setting access rights.

Note that some operating system keyboard commands are still accessible in kiosk mode. Some keyboard commands can allow the user to exit kiosk mode. Once a user has access to the portal pages, they can grant themselves access rights to any operator view of a project on the runtime platform. Therefore, enabling kiosk mode and setting access rights for operator views should be considered deterrence measures.

Deploying a project in kiosk mode

To only display the operator view and hide all GUI elements of the operating system and web browser on the runtime platform, you can deploy your project in kiosk mode. For information on deploying a project in kiosk mode, see the Kiosk mode subsection of the Deploying and running your project section in Chapter 2: Building a project.

Setting access rights for operator views

To restrict unauthorized users from accessing some or all of the operator views of your project, you can require the user to login to those operator views with a username and password. For information about setting access rights for operator views, see the Access rights to a project's operator views section in Chapter 50: Customizing the operator view.