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User Groups


ELMA users are grouped in User Groups, which are meant for managing access permissions to various ELMA objects.
When a user is added to a group, they automatically receive access permissions to system objects; these permissions are specific for the group. This means that the administrator does not have to configure access permissions for each user individually.
There are two ways to create a user group:
When a user group is added or deleted in ELMA Designer, it is also added to or deleted from the list of groups in Web Application and vice versa.
There are two types of User Groups:
Users are added to groups in Administration - Users - Groups.
User groups in ELMA Designer
In ELMA Designer (Organizational Structure tab, User Groups section) you can manage the user groups:
To open the User Groups section in ELMA Designer, go the Organizational Structure, click the Organizational Structure button and select User Groups (Fig. 1,2).
Fig. 1. Organizational Structure > User Groups.
Fig. 2. User Groups section.
Click the Add button to create a new user group. When you click on it, a dialogue box opens, where you enter a name and a description of the new group (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3. Dialog box for creating a new user group.
Click Edit to edit the name or the description of a user group.
Click Delete to delete a user group.
System groups cannot be edited or changed.
To go back to the modeling sheet, click Groups - Organizational Structure (Fig. 4).
Fig. 4. Groups > Organizational Structure.
A user group can be specified as the executor of a dynamic swimlane in a business process in ELMA Designer.
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