Creating and Deleting Groups

You can manage your Congree user groups in the Groups menu of the User Manager.

Requirements:

  • You are in the Groups menu of the User Manager of the Congree Control Center.

How to create groups:

  1. You have two options:

    1. Click Add.
    2. Click Click here to add a new row.
    3. A row for a new group will be created:
  2. Enter a group name under Name.
  3. Optional: Enter a description of the group under Description.
  4. Open the drop-down list Roles:
  5. Assign one or several roles from the drop-down list to the group.
  6. Optional: Associate the group with a Windows user group.

    1. Open the drop-down list Associations and choose the Trust Windows tab:
    2. In the Trust Windows tab, click Add.

      1. A dialogue will open up:
    3. Specify a group and click OK.
    4. In the Trust Windows tab, click OK again.

      1. The Windows user group has been entered in the respective cell in the form [host name]/[group].
    5. Members of the Congree group can log in to the Congree Authoring Client or Congree Control Center with their Windows user data, provided that the associated Windows user group has sufficient rights.
  7. Optional: Specify whether Congree users are permitted to log in with the CMS user data.

    1. Open the drop-down list Associations and choose the Trust CMS tab:
    2. In the Trust CMS tab, activate the option Allows CMS users to log in:
    3. Click OK.
    4. Members of the Congree group can log in to the Congree Authoring Client or Congree Control Center with their CMS user data.
  8. Optional: Associate the group with a domain.

    1. Open the drop-down list Associations in the Trust Domain tab:
    2. In the Trust domain tab, click Add.

      1. A row will be displayed for editing:
    3. Specify a domain.
    4. In the Trust domain tab, click OK.

      1. Enter the domain name in the respective cell.
    5. Members of the Congree group can log in to the Congree Authoring Client or Congree Control Center as members of the domain.
  9. Click the Save button to save the group.
  10. Under Users, you can assign any groups to your Congree users.

Important:

If, due to his roles, a Congree user has different access authorizations than his group, the roles and thus the rights will be combined.

How to delete groups:

  1. Select the groups to be deleted.
  2. Click the Delete button:

    1. The following dialog field will be displayed:
  3. Click Yes.
  4. The selected groups have been deleted.