Groups
Groups can be assigned to a specific department and they can have public or private visibility.
Granting a group private visibility means that public users from all departments and private users from its own department can be added to it. This group ID can be managed by its own department administrator as well as by other department administrators that can manage the department assigned to this group. This group can be set as the authorized group ID in a file transfer definition that is assigned to this department. This group can also be used as the group ID value in a user profile definition for public and private nodes in this specific department.
Granting a group public visibility means that this group can do what a private group is capable to do; and in addition, this group ID can be seen and are available to all department administrators in the system. This group can have public users from other departments added to it, and the group can be set as the authorized group ID in a file transfer definition that is assigned to other departments. The group can be used as the group ID value in a user profile definition created for public nodes assigned to other departments. Group IDs must be unique throughout the system, thus groups in different departments cannot have the same group ID. A group can only belong to one department in the system.
Department administrators can see groups assigned to their departments, groups assigned to the departments that they can manage, and groups from other departments that have public visibility. If a super administrator updates a group originally created by a department administrator, only the information that the department administrator has access to can be used. Otherwise, an error occurs.
UpdateGroupRight supports users to add, update, delete, and view groups. ViewGroupRight supports users to view groups.
Add Group
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Department Administrator | Department administrators can create a group, and assign the group to their departments or the departments that they can manage.
The visibility of the group can be set to public or private. |
| Super Administrator | Super administrators can create a group which can be assigned to any department in the system or to none at all.
The visibility of the group can be set to public or private. A group that is not assigned to a department gains no special properties but can only be administered by super administrators. |
Manage Groups
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Department Administrator | Department administrators can update and delete any groups that are assigned to their departments and any groups that are assigned to the departments that they can manage.
Department administrators can see and change the Department parameter of a group definition assigned to their departments and the Department parameter of a group definition assigned to any departments that they can manage. The visibility of the group can be changed to public or private by the department administrator. |
| Super Administrator | Super administrators can list, update, and delete any group in the system.
The department that this group is assigned to can be changed to any department in the system or to none at all. The visibility of the group can be changed to public or private. Pay special attention when changing the visibility of a group, because this change might include or exclude users. |