Permissions Reporter

This tutorial is designed to help you get up and running quickly with Permissions Reporter.

 

If you haven't already downloaded and installed Permissions Reporter, please do so now. Once installed, start Permissions Reporter via the provided desktop shortcut.

 

Step 1 - Configure Your First Project

 

By default, Permissions Reporter will create a new project when it starts for the first time.

 

A Permissions Reporter project provides the program with information about how to generate a file system permissions report. It includes information about which parts of the file system to analyze, which to exclude, and defines a range of applicable settings.

 

To begin, click the Settings button in the main window toolbar and select the Folders tab. Use the Add Folder button to choose a folder path that resides somewhere on your computer. You can also analyze remote file systems or import multiple folders, but for now let's keep things simple and report on a single local directory.

 

Click the Save button to commit your project changes and close the Project Settings window.

 

Step 2 - Run the Project

 

From the main program window, click the Run project toolbar button to start generating a file system permissions report.

 

The Folder View will begin populating immediately, while other reports such as the Table View and File Report will make their contents available only upon completion of the current permissions analysis.

 

Step 3 - View the Results

 

When the file system analysis completes, all enabled report views will be populated with data. You can switch between them using the tabs in the main program window.

 

There are a number of mechanisms that can be used to narrow down the permissions report results, including scan-time and post-scan filtering. You can also perform column-based filtering in the Folder Report and File Report views.