User Groups

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Overview

User groups are a way to combine multiple database users into a single group. User groups can help describe relationships and responsibilities among database users. Groups can be defined in any manner you see fit.

Examples:

• By Job Description

  • Electrical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Engineering Managers

• By Department

  • Purchasing
  • Document Control

• By Project Groups

  • Saturn Group Members
  • Jupiter Group Members
  • Neptune Group Members

Whenever a user list is displayed (e.g. when selecting signoff users), the User Groups will also be displayed. Users will be able to select individual users of a group or the entire group.

Adding Groups

To add a user group, click the Add Group toolbar button. The Add Group panel will appear.

When adding a User Group you can specify the following:

Field	Description
Group Name	User Group name/label
Description	Description of user group

To add the group, specify the name, and then click the Apply or Add button.

Deleting Groups

To delete a User Group, first select the group from the drop list.

You will be asked to verify the group deletion.

Group Users

To add users to a User Group, first select the group from the drop list.

To add a user, click the user name hyperlink from the Available Users list. This will add the user to the Users in Group list.

You can search for users in the Available Users list by specifying keywords and clicking the Search button.

To remove users, hover over the user name in the Users in Group list and then click the Garbage Can icon button.