Group Management 

Features

In the user management administration console, you can:

·        Create, modify, and delete groups

·        Assign users and groups to groups

·        Export group data

To improve performance for systems with a large number of groups and with groups containing a large number of members, the group administration function provides the following features:

·        By default only the first 200 members of a group are displayed. A search function allows you to search for specific members in the group.

You can change the number of users that are displayed by default by changing the value of the UME property ume.admin.search_maxhits_warninglevel. See also UME Properties ® Administration.

·        When you launch the group management function or assign a group to a group, the list of groups is not displayed by default. Instead you can search for a specific group.

Restrictions

If user management is set up with write access to an LDAP directory, the following restriction applies: When assigning members to a group that is stored in the LDAP directory, you can only assign users or groups that are also stored in the LDAP directory. You cannot assign users or groups from the database to groups from the LDAP directory. 

You can, however, assign users and groups stored in the LDAP directory to a group in the database.

Activities

You access group management in the user management administration console. 

You can perform the following activities:

Activity	How to perform the activity
Create a group	...        1.      Choose  (Create New).        2.      Enter data as required.        3.      Save your changes.
Modify or view a group	...        1.      Select a group from the list.        2.      Choose  (Modify/View).
Assign users to a group	...        1.      Select a group from the list.        2.      Choose  (Assign Users to ...).        3.      To select the users that you want to assign to the group, choose  (Add Users).        4.      To save your changes, choose Done.
Assign groups to a group	...        1.      Select a group from the list.        2.      Choose  (Assign Groups to ...).        3.      To select the groups that you want to assign to the group, choose  (Add Groups).        4.      To save your changes, choose Done.
Delete a group	...        1.      Select a group from the list.        2.      Choose  (Delete).
Export one or more groups (See also Import and Export of User and Group Data)	...        1.      Select one or more groups from the list.        2.      Choose  (Export). The group data appears in standard format in the browser window. You can save the data as a text file directly from the browser or copy and paste the text to the local file system.        3.      Choose the Back button in the browser to return to the group administration page.

To display the groups that a particular user is in, search for the user and in the results list, choose the icon with the quick info text Groups for that user. Only administrators can display the groups that a user is in. A user cannot display a list of his or her own groups.