Debug access

Oblique provides several ways to help you understand and debug access. These are shown on a user’s profile, or on an attribute-based group’s, team group’s, resource’s or listing’s detail page. This includes:

• The entitlements list shows you the access a user, group, resource, or listing has.
• The access graph shows you the relationships between users, groups, resources, and listings.
• The access change timeline shows you recent events that changed access for the user, group, resource, or listing.

When debugging why a user does or doesn’t have access, consider these common questions:

• Who has access to this resource?
• How does this user have access to this resource?
• How has access changed for this user or this resource over time?
• How is this user’s access different from others?

See what access a user or group has

To see what access a user or group has, navigate to the user’s or group’s detail page.

Under Access, you can see the listings the user or groups has access to, and Admins can also see the resources the user or group has access to. Under How, you can see whether that access comes directly or indirectly. Indirect access is when a user has access through a group they belong to.

You can search this table for listings or resources which the user or group has access to.

See who can access a resource or listing and how

To see who can access a resource or listing, navigate to the resource’s or listing’s detail page.

For a resource, under Entitlements, you can see the users and groups that have access to the resource. For listings, you can see this information under *Access. This includes the number of users and groups that have direct access and the total number of users having access.

You can search this table for users and groups that have access.

See how a user has access to a resource or listing

To see how a user has access to a resource or listing, navigate to the user’s profile, and then next to Access, select View graph. This will show the access graph for the user, which shows the relationships between the user and the resources they have access to.

You can also open this view from the Access table on a resource’s detail page for a user. Identify the desired user in the table and then select More and then View graph.

See how access to a resource is obtained

To understand how access to a resource is obtained, navigate to the resource’s detail page. Next to Access, select View graph. This shows the access graph for the resource, which displays the relationships between the resource and the users and groups that have access to it.

You can also open this view from the Access table on a user’s or group’s detail page. Identify the desired resource in the table and then select More and then View graph.

See how access has changed over time for a user or a group

To see how access has changed over time for a user or a group, navigate to the user’s profile or the group’s detail page.

Under Access changes, you can see a timeline of access changes that affect this user or group.

See how access to a resource or listing has changed

To see how access to a resource or listing has changed over time, navigate to the resource’s or listing’s detail page.

Under Access changes, you can see a timeline of access changes that affect this resource or listing.

Compare two users’ group membership

To compare two users’ group membership, navigate to the Groups page.

1. Select Filter, then select the Members filter.
2. Select the first user. The groups list is now filtered to groups that the first user is a member of.
3. Again, select Filter, then select the Members filter.
4. Select the second user. Change the filter from one of to none of.

The resulting filtered groups list will show groups that the first user is a member of, but not the second user.