Pausing Guardian

The Guardian Pause feature allows Administrators and users (when enabled in the settings) to pause certain features and tools of Guardian temporarily. The settings of the Pause feature can be adjusted to only suspend certain aspects of Guardian so that other features can still be utilized.

Why you need to Pause Guardian

Guardian has many helpful features and tools, but there are times when it can be a hinderance. When loading in multiple families at once from a cleaned library, it can be quicker to pause Guardian's scanning and processing function rather than to create a rule in the Approved Sources feature. Similarly, while demoing a feature or performing a training session, it may be better to suspend any Guardian pop-up dialogs.

Customizing the Pause feature

The Pause button/menu can be found in the Guardian tab of the Add-Ins ribbon.

Toggling the stop light button (A) will pause any of the Guardian features that are selected in the menu below (B).

Users can also be granted the ability to use the Pause feature. This can be enabled in Company Settings.

Enabling Allow users to pause Guardian will enable the Pause feature for all end users.

In the settings cog, Administrators can set a Protection Mode and Command Message for end users when they activate the Pause feature.