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Use the Administration Console Security page to turn BarTender security on or off and to specify where the security settings are stored: on the local computer or in the BarTender System Database. You can also select a method for error handling. To access the Security page, click Security in the left navigation pane of Administration Console.

• Enable Security for this computer: Makes the integrated security system available for your BarTender installation so that you can define user permissions, log permission checks, require electronic signatures, and/or encrypt BarTender documents. To turn off BarTender security, click to clear this check box.

: Restores the security settings that are stored in the BarTender System Service.

Security Policy

• Effective for this computer only: Specifies that the BarTender security policy settings are configured only for the local computer.

• Effective for all computers sharing the BarTender System Database: Specifies that the BarTender security policy settings are shared among all the computers that use the same BarTender System Database.

• Backup Policy: Opens the Save security XML to file dialog so that you can save the BarTender security settings to a file on the network.

• Restore Policy: Opens the Select security XML file to import dialog so that you can import the BarTender security settings from a file on the network.

Error Handling

You can configure how errors are handled when the shared BarTender security policy is not accessible, as follows:

• Deny access to all actions: Specifies that all actions are unavailable until the problem is fixed.

• Use cached security policy: Specifies that the last known cached security settings are used until the BarTender security system can reconnect.

Related Topics

• Enabling Security
• About Security Storage