Groups

Description

Groups allow administrator users to specify permission for multiple users.users in a quick and easy way. Groups of users are managed in a hierarchical way.

Companies are organized in different business units, departments or workgroups. In Soffid, they all are named as groups. Some systems, like Active Directory use the groups to control or restrict access to resources. A Soffid Group is more like an Active Directory OU.

Screen overview

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Related objects

1. User
2. Roles

Standar attributes

Basic

On the basic group tab, you can view all the group attributes. It is allowed to add new groups,  update or delete existing groups.

• Name: short name to identify the group.
• Description: group description.
• Drive letter: If specified, a shared folder for this user will be created. This shared folder can be mounted on ESSO hosts by using startup script.
• Parent group: parent within the hierarchy.
• Type: group type. Youyou have more information aboutabout Group groupType type on this linkpage
• Drive server name: server where the shared folders can be located.
• Disabled: allows to enable and to disable the group. When a group is disabled, the group's role hierarchy is no longer available to the group's users.

Users

Set of users belonging to the group. ItThese isusers shownhave the user,permissions fulldefined namein andthat group type.group. 

AllowsOn tothe users tab, you can  add new users to the group by clicking the button with the add symbol (+), you must select the user to add and select the membership properties.

It is also allowed to delete one or more users from ana specific group, you can do it from the group membership details or by selecting one or more records from the list and clicking the button with the subtraction symbol (-).

AdditionallyAdditionally, you can download a CSV file with the users information and you can also upload a CSV file to add new users, modify or delete existing users.

Granted roles

SetHere ofyou can find all the permissions assigned to a group. Users who belong to that group will inherit these permissions.

On the granted roles totab, theyou group. It is shown the role, domain, System and information system.

Allows tocan assign or revoke roles to the group. To assign a new role, you must click the button with the add symbol (+), then select the roll,  in some cases specify the scope, and finally set membership properties. To revoke role, you can do it from the group membership detail or by selecting one or more records from the list and clicking the button with the subtraction symbol (-).

AdditionallyAdditionally, you can download a CSV file with the granted roles information and you can also upload a CSV file to assign roles, modify or delete assigning roles.

Managers

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Group detail actions

Apply changes	Allows to create a new group or to update an exist group.
Delete	Allows to delete a specific group.
Undo	Allows to quit without applying any changes.

Users

Granted roles