This page last changed on May 07, 2008 by smaddox.

About Groups and Roles

Groups and roles are known as permission container objects. Groups are particularly important in Crowd, as they are often used to control access to applications. Note also that the crowd-administrators group confers Crowd administration rights to its members.

Roles are used less frequently, depending on the requirements of individual applications.

About nested groups

Some user directories allow you to define a group as a member of another group. Groups in such a structure are called 'nested groups'. In Crowd, you can map any group to an application, including a group which contains other groups. Currently, nested groups are supported for LDAP directory connectors only.

For more details about nested groups, refer to Nested Groups in Crowd.

About the Group Browser and the Role Browser

The Group Browser and the Role Browser are very similar. They allow you to search, view, add and edit the various groups and roles stored within a specified directory.

To use the Group Browser,

  1. Log in to the Crowd Administration Console.
  2. Click the 'Groups' tab in the top navigation bar.
  3. The Group Browser will appear. Select the directory in which you are interested, then click the 'Search' button to list all the groups that exist in that directory.
    You can refine your search by specifying a 'Name' (note that this is case-sensitive), or 'Active'/'Inactive' groups.
  4. To view or edit a group's details, click the 'View' link.
  5. Click the 'Members' tab to view the immediate members of the group, including users and other groups.
  6. Click the 'All Users' tab (if present) to view all users who are included in the group and in its sub-groups
    • The 'All Users' tab will appear only if the group you are viewing contains sub-groups.
    • You can read more about group members in Viewing Members of a Group.


Screenshot 1: 'Group Browser'




Screenshot 2: 'View and Update Group Details'



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