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ATS Security provides centralized login logic and workflow for multiple client applications which are registered to use ATS Security as their identity provider. ATS Security authentication and authorization engine is based on IdentityServer4 that provides claims based security following the OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 standards.

Basic UI concepts

The user interface of ATS Security is accessible as a "plug-in" from the ATS Configuration Manager. When interacting with the plug-ins in ATS Configuration manager the users work most of the time with cards, blades and grids. They get feedback for the outcome of their actions with success or failure push notifications.

Working with cards

After login to ATS Configuration Manager the user lands on the Home page of ATS Configuration manager which contains "cards" for each of the installed plug-ins which are available for the logged in user. Each card has title(1), content area(2) and shortcut links(2) which, when clicked, load different modules or blades of the respective plug-in.

Working with blades

The basic concept of user interaction in ATS Configuration Manager are the "blades". A blade is a modular component of the user interface that enables elementary operations for the user. Using blades complex configurations can be made. For example, one can assign roles to a user while creating the user, and if the desired role does not exist in the system it can be created "on-the-fly" using the "Add new role" blade which can be opened from the "Adding roles to user" blade.

Each new blade is loaded on the right-hand side of the previous blade. Once the last (right-most) blade is finalized, saved and closed the previous blades i.e. "parent" blades get accordingly updated to reflect the new situation. In case one of the "parent" blades is closed the pending changes in the child blades are not preserved (are cancelled).

In ATS Security there are three major types of blades:

1. Grid blade - A blade that shows some records in a grid (i.e. table). Example Users - All users grid.

2. Form blade - A blade for adding new items that contains multiple fields for providing details for the new item. Sometimes such a blade can be used also for viewing and/or editing details of simple items such as External identity providers.

3. Tabbed blade - This is a blade that shows different aspects of a complex item. For example the User details blade has three "tabs" or three entries in the in-blade menu showing the user Profile, Roles and Application info. When saving the data in a tabbed blade each tab needs to be saved separately (the Save option is on tab level).

The tab content of the tabbed blade can itself be of "type" grid or form fields or mixed content: form fields + grid.

Working with grids

In each of the grids present in the ATS Security user interface you can:

1. Refresh the grid information.
2. Search on column level using the search conditions such as:
1. contains
2. does not contain
3. starts with
4. ends with
5. equals
6. does not equal
7. less than
8. greater than
9. between
3. Sort values on column level.
4. Filter records based on specific value(s) in a column.
5. Hover above a row and click on a row (click usually opens new details blade for the respective grid entry).
6. Load a context menu on row level with actions applicable to the respective grid entry.
7. Show records in multiple grid pages.
8. Set the page size to 5, 10, 15 or 20 record per page.

Push notifications

Push notifications appear after an action in one of the blades, grids or a pop-up window. The  push notification remains visible for several seconds then disappears without user action. If the outcome of the action is successful then a green - success notification appears. When errors appear the push notification is red - failure notification.

Access control

Each user authorized to work in the ATS Security can be assigned one, all or any combination of the following rights:

• ViewUsersRoles
• EditUsersRoles
• ViewApplications
• EditApplications
• ViewProviders
• EditProviders
• ViewSettings
• EditSettings
• ViewActivity
• BulkImport

The rights assigned to you, will give you access to the functionality as described in the table below:

•   The BulkImport rights only works in combination with the EditUsersRoles right. The right alone will not give access to the Import of users feature.