Information for System Administrators
- See Group Registry entry for details about assigning users to more than one group and for issue that may arise if a user is / is not logged in when a change is made to their Group Registry entry.
- See Multi-group Support: security profile extensions for details about how the
- See The Registry cache: Flushing and Enabling / Disabling for an explanation of when it may be necessary to flush / disable the Registry cache.
Users can be members of more than one group:
- A user who is a member of more than one group can select the group name to use from the Login box when logging into
- At any time it is possible to switch to another group without logging out and back in again.
- When switching groups the user decides whether opened modules should remain open or whether they should be closed.
- Any new modules opened will use the group permissions assigned to the group that the user switched to.
By not closing open modules it is possible to have modules in different groups open at the same time.
With multi-group support, a user is able to log in using one group, switch to another group while leaving existing modules open, perform operations in the new group and then switch back to the previous group, all without having to close any modules. A key feature of multi-group support is that it allows users to change roles without losing their current work position and then to return to that position at a later time.
When a user has been assigned to more than one group, the
Note: The list of groups that displays is determined by the combination of username + service. A user can have the same username on multiple services, and in each service may be a member of different groups.