Defining Permissions Overview

Groups are a powerful tool that allow you to collect users into a single unit against which you can apply permissions. Permissions applied or not applied to a group also apply to any member of the group. You can establish a group that represents a job performed by a class of workers in your organization and grant the appropriate permissions to that group. As workers rotate into the job, you add them as a group member. When they rotate out of the job, remove them. You do not have to apply and remove permissions to or from each person as they accept or leave a job. The permissions are applied automatically when the users become members of the group.

Groups and Users

Groups are used by the menu level security within TRAVERSE to control the functionality that each group of users has.

To make your system as secure as possible, take away all user access within the Public group, create new groups, and assign roles and permissions for those new groups based upon needs and tasks. See Define Application Security for information on assigning user access within groups.