Creating a Person Group
Specific to RDBMS environments.
A Person Group is a list of persons belonging to the same group.
A user group is a group of persons with a login.
For detailed information on:
A person group depends on an environment. To create a person group, you must connect to the environment to which the persons are attached.
Creating a person group (Web Front-End)
To create a person group:
1. Access the User Management pages.
2. You can create:
• either a non-predefined person group:
Select the
Person Groups sub-folder and go to step
4.
• or a predefined person group:
Select the sub-folder:
Person groups by business role (available if the "Management of assignment of business roles to persons" option is selected) to create a person group and automatically assign to the person group the business role, that you are going to select.
Person groups by profile (available if the "Management of assignment of business roles to persons" option is cleared) to create a person group automatically connected to the profile that you are going to select.
Person groups by writing access area (available if several writing access areas are available) to create a person group automatically connected to the writing access area that you are going to select.
Person groups by reading access area (available if reading access management is activated) to create a person group automatically connected to the reading access area that you are going to select.
3. In the edit zone, select the profile, the business role, the profile, the writing access area or the reading access area that you want to connect to the group.
4. Click
New 
.
The Creation of Person Group - Characteristics dialog box opens.
5. In the Name field, enter the name of the person group.
Example: Marketing.
6. (With the MEGA Supervisor technical module) In the Writing access area field, use the drop-down menu to select the value for the writing access area for the group.
The
Writing Access Area field appears only if there are several writing access areas.
7. (With the MEGA Supervisor technical module) In the Reading access area field, use the drop-down menu to select the value for the reading access area for the group.
8. Click OK.
The person group is created and listed in the Person Group tab.
Creating a person group (Windows Front-End)
To create a person group:
1. Open the Users management window.
2. In the Users window, select the Person Groups tab.
3. Click
New 
.
The Creation of Person Group - Characteristics dialog box opens.
4. In the Name field, enter the name of the person group.
Example: Marketing.
5. (With the MEGA Supervisor technical module) In the Writing Access Area field, use the drop-down menu to select the value for the writing access area for the group.
6. (With the MEGA Supervisor technical module, if reading accesses management is activated) In the Reading Access Area field, use the drop-down menu to select the value for the reading access area for the group.
By default, at creation, the group is connected to the "Standard" reading access area.
7. Click OK.
The person group is created and listed in the Person Groups tab.