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Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
Rights and permissions
PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
Account management
Set up users, groups, and global roles. Use global roles to control who can perform particular database tasks such as setting up database policies or managing user sessions. Set up document roles and assign them to users and groups to define security contexts. Apply these security contexts to folders to control who can perform particular document tasks.
Security contexts
Assign document roles to PLA 3.0 users and groups to define security contexts. Use security contexts to implement your permission system and control who can perform which tasks on documents stored in particular folders or folder trees.
Folders tab
The following table explains the features and controls available in the Security contexts dialog.

Get started
Get an overview of PLA 3.0, the end-to-end bioassay analysis software. Learn about its ongoing improvements and version updates, and discover the available trial options.
Key concepts
Learn how the key concepts of PLA 3.0 form the structural foundation for your daily work, supporting method development from initial design to routine production.
Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to assay workflows and statistical process control.
Data import
Use data acquisition and data import add-ons to import external response values and observation data into PLA 3.0 for further processing and evaluation.
User interface
PLA 3.0 supports you in your daily work by providing a set of graphical and textual user interface elements. Learn about the different elements and how to use them efficiently.
Installation and update
Details on deployment, installation, and update of PLA 3.0, and its initial and advanced setup.
Licensing
Details on the licensing solution of PLA 3.0, the available licensing options, and the activation and management of licenses.
Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
- Databases
  Current regulations, such as 21 CFR 11.10 in the pharmaceutical industry, require you to ensure that only authorized individuals can access your systems, perform operations, and sign records. The database-driven approach of PLA 3.0 enables you to take major steps toward meeting these requirements.
- Add-on management
  The add-on management feature of PLA 3.0 provides a central interface to activate, deactivate, or remove add-ons. You can request trials or quotes, and view release dates and dependencies, ensuring consistent and version‑controlled functionality across your PLA 3.0 database.
- Rights and permissions
  PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
  - Account management
    Set up users, groups, and global roles. Use global roles to control who can perform particular database tasks such as setting up database policies or managing user sessions. Set up document roles and assign them to users and groups to define security contexts. Apply these security contexts to folders to control who can perform particular document tasks.
    - Global roles
      Combine database tasks into global roles and assign them to users and groups to control who can perform particular database tasks.
    - Document roles
      Set up document roles as a preliminary step in defining the security contexts you need for the database. Combine document tasks into document roles to control who can perform which tasks on documents stored in particular folders or folder trees.
    - Groups
      Set up PLA 3.0 user groups to assign them global roles and combine them with document roles into security contexts. PLA 3.0 allows you to use secure LDAP (LDAPS) directory services to map your PLA 3.0 groups to user groups defined elsewhere on your network.
    - Security contexts
      Assign document roles to PLA 3.0 users and groups to define security contexts. Use security contexts to implement your permission system and control who can perform which tasks on documents stored in particular folders or folder trees.
      - Security contexts tab
        Create, modify, and delete security contexts for the database.
      - General tab
        Configure security contexts and assigned roles.
      - Folders tab
        The following table explains the features and controls available in the Security contexts dialog.
      - Set up security contexts
        Set up additional security contexts to achieve fine-granular control over the actions particular users and groups can perform in particular folders and folder trees.
    - Users
      If you do not have access to LDAP directory services on your network, you can set up user accounts directly in PLA 3.0.
    - Define translations
      Define translations in the preferred languages of your users PLA 3.0 then displays the description in the language preferred by the current user, according to the language settings of the operating system.
  - Folder properties
    Set up folder properties to restrict the content of folders to particular document types and to documents generated from particular document templates. Set the names of folders. Customize the identification key formats of folders and of the documents and templates they contain.
  - Directory service
    Use secure LDAP (LDAPS) directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services, to authenticate PLA 3.0 users. You map your PLA 3.0 groups, which have PLA 3.0 roles assigned, to user groups set up on a directory server. You cannot directly assign directory users to PLA 3.0 groups.
- Backup and restore
  To keep the integrity of your PLA 3.0 environment and prevent data loss, we recommend regularly backing up your data. Find details on the key areas to consider and practical guidance on backup and restore procedures within your PLA 3.0 environment.
Regulatory compliance
PLA 3.0 supports you in achieving compliance with regulations such as ISPE GAMP^® 5 and 21 CFR Part 11. It also provides options to validate PLA 3.0 in your environment.
PDF downloads
Download PDF guides of current and previous framework and add-on versions.
Sample lab
Meet the team at Stegmann Labs, where PLA 3.0 plays an essential role in every step of bioassay management.
Glossary
Find definitions of terms.

Folders tab

The following table explains the features and controls available in the Security contexts dialog.


Item	Description
Assigned folders/ Path list	Displays the database paths of all folders assigned to the current security context.

Tip: Use the Change security context dialog to assign additional folders to the security context and to remove folders from it (File > Advanced > Security context).