MEGA Administration : Administrator Guide : Managing Users : Introduction to User Management : User Group: Definition
   
User Group: Definition
A person can belong to one or more groups. A user group is a group of persons with a login.
Persons belonging to a group:
• depend on the same environment.
• share the same connection characteristics defined on the login of the group.
*see "Configuring a Login".
• connect to the application with their login, but with repository access rights defined on the login of the group.
*see "Login Properties".
• share the assignments defined for the group.
*A person belonging to a group can only connect in the name of the group (the assignments defined for the persons are ignored).
*See "Assigning a Business Role to a Person Group (Web Front-End)".
For each environment, a user group has:
• personal characteristics defined by its person group.
*see "Person Group Properties".
• access rights to product functions and repositories of the environment, defined by its login.
*see "Login Properties".