Create Groups

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The Visual Guard user Groups can contain subgroups.

You can grant N roles and N users to a group. Any user or sub-group inside the group may also have the granted role as well.

Visual Guard Group can contain Windows users or Windows groups.

Groups

In order to create a group follow the steps below:

  • Login to the Repository where you want to create a group.
  • Access the Add Group option, using one of the options mentioned below:
    • Right click on the Groups from the Left Navigation Panel and select the Add Group option (A) from the Left of the searching tool bar.
  • The new group will be created under the Groups option as shown below:
  • You can rename the group by selecting the group and pressing F2 key (B). For example Dept 2 (sales)
  • The renamed group will be displayed as shown below:

Subgroups

You can also create the sub groups under a parent group.

Subgroups inherit parent group roles.

Follow the steps below to create a sub group.

  • Login to the VG Webconsole and select the Groups> Group Name under which the subgroup needs to be created.
  • Access the Add Group option using one of the options below:
    • Right click on the Groups> Group Name from the Left Navigation Panel and select the Add Group option (A) from the popup menu
  • You can rename the group by double clicking on the group name (B). You can rename the new group. For example Dept 2 (Sales) The renamed group will be displayed as shown below:

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