Groups

A security group consists of one or more users who share the same set of rights. Groups generally correspond to staff positions at the library (for example, cataloger, cataloging supervisor, circulation clerk, or circulation supervisor). Groups link users to roles and ownerships. You assign users and roles to groups according to the rights you want for each user.

When you assign a role to a group, you associate the role with an ownership to limit role privileges and CRUDO settings to records of that ownership. (Note that rights are limited only for processes that use record ownership.) This association of a role and an ownership in a group is referred to as a role/owner pair.

Security groups are different from preference groups. Preference groups define user preferences (shortcut keys, toolbars, startup processes, etc.). The users you assign to a security group may or may not belong to the same preference group. (For information about preference groups, see Setting Up Preferences for Users.)

 


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