Best Practices for MES User Account in Kinetic

[grant-rb (Grant R)]

Is there any way to remove a specific user’s access to Data Discovery or ability to add homepage widgets in Kinetic? Specifically looking to do this for the Kinetic user account you have to log into prior to accessing MES/Data Collection. That user account has zero menu access, but can still see Data Discovery and Widgets for some reason.

[josephp (Joseph Pisano)]

We are using MES in MS Kiosk Model.

I found a solution that allowed me to remove all the icons on the blue-side menu and posted in this thread (on-prem, your SAAS may vary):

Kinetic: Hide Blue/Side Menu Items for Certain Users

All, I cannot find any way (a better, complete way) to limit access to the following buttons for some users, in the blue-side bar Main Navigation Strip on the left-side of all Kinetic Web-screens. Data Discovery Collaborate There is nothing apparent to do this. We can turn off Enterprise-search per user, but nothing else. If this is a custom layer modification - where do we start with regard to the nav-bar modification as there is no direct link to application studio here. It looks as thoug…

Hope that helps.