Managing Person Groups Rather than Persons
To facilitate management, instead of managing persons individually, you can manage them by person group.
Example: the group of auditors.
Configuration does not take place at the person level but at the group level.
Persons belonging to a group:
• depend on the same environment.
• share the same connection characteristics defined by the profile of the group and its assignment.
• connect to the application with their login, but with access rights defined on the login of the group.
• share the assignments defined for the group.
• share the personal characteristics defined for the group.
When a person belongs to a person group, the person cumulates the profiles assigned to her/him to the profiles assigned to the person groups she/he belongs to. The person connects through the group or via his/her profile assignments defined on his/her person.
A person can belong to one or more groups.
You can:
• connect a person to a person group, individually, directly on creation of the person.
• connect more than one person to a person group simultaneously:
A user group is a group of persons with a login.
see "Before defining a user: profile and person group concepts".