diff --git a/js/pages/configuration/configuration.html b/js/pages/configuration/configuration.html
index ebbaf5493..831dcf859 100644
--- a/js/pages/configuration/configuration.html
+++ b/js/pages/configuration/configuration.html
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@
 							<span data-bind="text:ko.i18n('configuration.buttons.clearServerCache', 'Clear Server Cache')"></span>
 						</a>
 					</div>
+					<div class="configuration__padded">
+						<a href="#" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" data-bind="click: runDiagnostics">
+							<span data-bind="text: 'Run Diagnostics'"></span>
+						</a>
+					</div>
 				</div>
 			</div>
 		</div>
diff --git a/js/pages/configuration/configuration.js b/js/pages/configuration/configuration.js
index 76ac15225..a13723d96 100644
--- a/js/pages/configuration/configuration.js
+++ b/js/pages/configuration/configuration.js
@@ -260,6 +260,24 @@ define([
         buttonClass,
       }
     }
+
+    runDiagnostics() {
+      
+      const startTime = performance.now();
+
+      // get the list of isPermitted functions, except the literal isPermitted
+      for (const key in authApi) {
+        if (typeof authApi[key] === 'function' && key.startsWith('isPermitted') && key != 'isPermitted') {
+          authApi[key](); // Invoke the function
+        }
+      }
+
+      const endTime = performance.now();
+
+      const elapsedTime = endTime - startTime;
+      console.log(`Script execution time: ${elapsedTime} milliseconds`);
+
+    }
   }
 
   return commonUtils.build('ohdsi-configuration', Configuration, view);
diff --git a/js/services/AuthAPI.js b/js/services/AuthAPI.js
index 098589973..cd88bbb32 100644
--- a/js/services/AuthAPI.js
+++ b/js/services/AuthAPI.js
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ define(function(require, exports) {
             url: config.api.url + 'user/me',
             method: 'GET',
             success: function (info, textStatus, jqXHR) {
-                permissions(info.permissions.map(p => p.permission));
+                permissions(info.permissionIdx);  // read from permission index of User info
                 subject(info.login);
                 authProvider(jqXHR.getResponseHeader('x-auth-provider'));
                 fullName(info.name ? info.name : info.login);
@@ -176,32 +176,44 @@ define(function(require, exports) {
         }
     }
 
+    // adapted from https://github.com/apache/shiro/blob/fa518ec985fd192497cd04e2569041b2f469aead/core/src/main/java/org/apache/shiro/authz/permission/WildcardPermission.java#L201
+
     var checkPermission = function(permission, etalon) {
-        // etalon may be like '*:read,write:etc'
-        if (!etalon || !permission) {
+        // etalon may be like '*:read,write:etc', and is a permission assigned to the user.
+        // permission is the permission to check
+        if (!etalon || !permission) { // both must be non-null to perform a check
             return false;
         }
 
-        if (permission == etalon) {
+        if (permission == etalon) { // quick check: if equal on both sides, then permission is granted.
             return true;
         }
 
         var etalonLevels = etalon.split(':');
         var permissionLevels = permission.split(':');
 
-        if (etalonLevels.length != permissionLevels.length) {
-            return false;
+        var i = 0;
+        for (let permissionLevel of permissionLevels) {
+            // If this etalon has less parts than the permission, everything after the number of parts contained
+            // in this etalon is automatically implied, so return true
+            if (etalonLevels.length - 1 < i) {
+                return true;
+            } else {
+                var etalonPart = etalonLevels[i].split(',');
+                var permissionPart = permissionLevel.split(',');
+                if (!etalonPart.includes("*") && !permissionPart.every(pp => etalonPart.includes(pp))) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+            i++;
         }
-
-        for (var i = 0; i < permissionLevels.length; i++) {
-            var pLevel = permissionLevels[i];
-            var eLevels = etalonLevels[i].split(',');
-
-            if (eLevels.indexOf('*') < 0 && eLevels.indexOf(pLevel) < 0) {
+        // If etalon has more parts than the permission, return true if rest of eLevels contains wildcard
+        for (; i < etalonLevels.length; i++) { // loop through remaining etalonLevels
+            var etalonPart = etalonLevels[i].split(',');
+            if (!etalonPart.includes("*")) {
                 return false;
             }
         }
-
         return true;
     };
 
@@ -210,7 +222,11 @@ define(function(require, exports) {
             return true;
         }
 
-        var etalons = permissions();
+        if (!permissions()) return false;
+
+        firstPerm = permission.split(":")[0];
+
+        var etalons = [...(permissions()["*"] || []),  ...(permissions()[firstPerm]||[])];
         if (!etalons) {
             return false;
         }
@@ -498,7 +514,7 @@ define(function(require, exports) {
 
 	const setAuthParams = (tokenHeader, permissionsStr = '') => {
         !!tokenHeader && token(tokenHeader);
-        !!permissionsStr && permissions(permissionsStr.split('|'));
+        !!permissionsStr && permissions(permissionsStr);
     };
 
     var resetAuthParams = function () {
@@ -622,6 +638,7 @@ define(function(require, exports) {
         TOKEN_HEADER,
         runAs,
         executeWithRefresh,
+
     };
 
     return api;