Wednesday, September 25, 2013

New user preferences and tweaks

In order to better refine our security model and give you greater control over who can access what, the following changes have been implemented:

New preferences for non admin users

You can now allow non admin users to see the "settings" tab and sub tabs, allowing them to manage appointment types and schedules.
You can also allow them to see the "registered clients" tab, which is now unavailable by default.

These preferences are found under "account" > "all users".


Note: regardless of whether non admin users can see the "settings" tab, they can always access the "time off" feature via a link on the appointment list.

Other tweaks

The default setting for all non admin users is not to be able to see/update "settings" or "registered clients". In addition to that, non admin users can no longer access the "settings" > "links" page, whether or not they can access other pages under "settings". They will need to go through an admin user to get access to information on that page.
Lastly, non admin users can no longer delete appointment types or schedules (this is what prompted us to accelerate our plans to roll out the new user preferences in the first place).

Future preferences

We have plans to allow you even more control by having the option to restrict users to only the schedule(s) they are explicitly assigned to. This will only apply to the new admin interface (currently in beta, with a new version coming soon).