I am trying to make a screen need a password to view it in perspective, not the entire project. The screen is for setup only and I will be the only one using it so I want to lock it away from operators, thank you in advance for the help.
You should be able to set per view security rules.
This will be used once the HMI is installed, so ideally I walk up to the screen and input a password to get to that screen, so I believe everyone will be on the same user, I would just make a password the operators do not know
Set the project IDP to be the built in Ignition usersource and create a new account with a role of 'HMI_Admin'. Make the login use the password you want to keep secret.
From there, set the view to require the user have 'HMI_Admin' as a role, and unless a user with that role is logged in, the button to reach that setup screen is hidden.
The other option is to watch for the logged in user to change (in a default session, its null if no one has logged in yet), and on change, inspect the roles for 'HMI_Admin' and navigate to the setup page if the new user has that role.
Then, when the HMI is deployed, you can login as that user with the role and be able to acess the screen. I would add something to make sure the system auto logs out from that higher privileged account.