Users' group membership determines the Spotfire features that they have access to, and therefore their role in the Spotfire environment.

Spotfire comes with a set of system groups that correspond to common user roles, such as Library Administrator or Script Author.

For groups that are synchronized from an external source such as an LDAP directory, certain tasks, including adding and removing members of the synchronized group, take place in the external environment and not within the Spotfire system.

For more information, see Groups and licenses introduction.

Access to library folders can be set for both groups and individual users; for more information, see the Spotfire Analyst User's Guide. Preferences are also set at the group level; for more information, see Preferences introduction. The tools for administering preferences and library access are available in Spotfire Analyst.