User Groups

User Groups are special items that can be used to form collections of user accounts. This is useful when several user accounts need to have the same security permissions—the security permissions can be allocated to the User Group instead of each individual user account (when a person logs on, they are given the permissions of the Everyone User Group, the permissions of their user account, and the permissions of any User Groups of which their user account is a member). By allowing you to allocate security permissions to multiple user accounts simultaneously, User Groups significantly reduce the amount of time and effort required to set up your system security.

For more information on how User Groups affect system security, see Understanding User Groups.

To learn how to create and configure User Groups and how to associate user accounts with them, see the following sections:

• Create a User Group
• Define the Operator Document Store for a User Group
• Associate a User with a User Group
• View the Members of a User Group.
  

You can also modify, move, rename or delete a User Group in the same way as you can alter or remove any other database item. For more information, see Organizing and Configuring Your Database in the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration.