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Maintain Groups
Whilst you can apply access permissions to each user individually, it is easier and more convenient to assign all users with the same access permission(s) to a security group, and assign the permissions to all the members of that group in a single action.
The security group also acts as a mailbox for Model Mail, where the group name can be selected as the addressee; when an internal mail is sent to the group, all members of the group receive that email in their Model Mail view. The group name can act as either:
| · | A mail list, in which case each group member receives their own copy of the message, or |
| · | A mail box, in which case the email is a single entity and the group members do not receive separate instances of it; if one group member responds to or deletes the email, the other group members see that action as if they had performed it themselves |
Access Project | Security | Manage Groups
Set up a security group
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New |
Click on this button to clear the fields ready to define a new group.
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Group Name |
Type the security group name.
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Description |
Type a description of the group.
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Save |
Click on this button to save the group definition and add it to the Groups list.
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Set Group Permissions
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Click on this button to immediately assign group access permissions to the group. |
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Shared Mail |
To make the group name act as a mail box, select this checkbox against the name in the list. To use the group name as a mail list, leave the checkbox unselected.
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Close |
Click on this button to close the dialog.
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Notes
| · | You must have Security - Manage Users permission to manage user groups; the initial Admin administrator and Administrators group automatically have this permission |
| · | You do not define groups as group logins with passwords; if you intend to use a group login, you can define a single-user login and password that all group members use (that is, Enterprise Architect allows multiple logins under one user ID) |
| · | Emails already sent to a group as a mail list and those sent to a group as a mailbox cannot be interchanged; if you change the status of the Shared Mail checkbox, the only way to change the distribution of past emails is to forward them to the group name again |
| · | You can subsequently edit the group name; changes are automatically reflected in the internal Model Mail mail list or mail box |
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