Groups

A group is a collection of users. Groups enable you to assign various types of access rights to multiple users at the same time, which makes user management easier and less time-consuming. Users in a group have some common characteristics. For example, users that work on the same level in a particular department can belong to one group.

Access rights assigned to a group are also assigned to all users that belong to that group. A user can be member of one or more groups at a time.

Group Properties

This section describes the properties of a group, as shown on the corresponding Edit pane.

Tasks

See earlier chapter for information about common tasks like create, view, copy, update, and delete. This chapter describes specific tasks for groups.

Adding and Removing Group Members

To add a group member to a group, perform the following steps:

1. On the Edit pane for the group, click on the action Add user.
   • A window containing a list of existing users appears.
2. Click on the select action for the user you want to add as a member to the group.
   • The selected user is added to the list of group members in the Edit pane, and the window containing the list of existing users closes.
3. Click Save.

Note: Click on the Add multiple users action if you want to add more than one group member. The window containing the list of existing users will remain open until you explicitly close it by clicking on the Close button. Each time you click on the select action for a user, this user will be added to the list of group members in the Edit pane.

To remove a group member from a user, perform the following steps:

1. On the Edit pane for the user, click on the remove action for the group member you want to remove.
   • A line-through will indicated that the member will be removed from the group.
2. Click Save.
   • iKnowBase removes the member from this group.