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3.16.6.1. Creating New Groups

Only members of Administrator groups are entitled to create new users and groups. For Administrator groups, the Administrator group flag is set as shown in the next figure.

Administrator Group

Figure 3.4. Administrator Group


A new group is created by giving it a new name and allocating existing users to the group. The Group id is automatically given by the application.

  1. Choose File|New group

  • or click on the tool bar

  • or press <CTRL>+<G> resp. <ALT>+<G>

  1. Name the group.

  2. Choose the group type.

  • You may choose Administrator group to provide administrator rights to the group members or Content Management Server group to create a non administrative group on the Content Management Server. Check Live Server group if you want to create a group for the Live Server (you have to create the same group on the Live Server, read Section 3.16.5, “Live Server Groups and Users” for details on Live Server user/groups).

  1. Save the group settings.

  • click on the tool bar.

  • or press <CTRL>+<S> resp. <ALT>+<S>

Creating a new group

Figure 3.5. Creating a new group


After creating a group, you may continue with either adding members to groups, or assigning rules to groups.

In order to add members to a group:

  1. Open the group in a tab

  2. Choose Edit | Members and users or groups that you want to add as members to your group.

Now you may continue with assigning rules to resources:

  1. Open the group tab

  2. Click on the [Add] button at the bottom of the window.

To assign rules to a group

  1. Choose a resource after that a resource type (depending on your SUPERVISE rights on this resource).

  • If you don't have SUPERVISE rights on that resource, you cannot choose a resource type. You can assign rights to a folder by choosing "Folder" in the field Resource Type.

Assign rules for group

Figure 3.6. Assign rules for group


The properties of a group can be characterized by the combination of multiple resources with their special rights.