User Groups

Select this option to display the User group archive form, which lists the publication's user groups. The following form is displayed:

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The upper part of the form contains group search and creation controls, and below that is an area for listing the groups returned by a search.

The search fields are:

Search word

Enter the name of the group you are looking for in this field. You can use the wild card character *. To search for all groups, enter * or leave the field blank.

Note that if you specify a value in the ID field, then this field is ignored.

ID

If you know the ID of the group you are looking for, you can enter it in this field. The Search word field is then ignored.

Immediately below the search fields is a button and two links:

Search: Click on this button to execute the search currently defined in the search fields. The results are displayed below.
Clear search: Click on this link to execute a search for all groups. All the search fields are cleared and the resulting search is executed. The results are displayed below.
Create new user group: Click on this link to create a new user group. Enter a name for the new group in the displayed form and click Save. The User Group form is then displayed (see Editing Groups), which you can use to assign roles to the group.

At the bottom of the form is a table where the results of searches are listed. The following items of information are listed for each group returned by a search:

Name
Publication (the name of the publication with which the user/person is associated)

The name of each group is a link: clicking on this link displays an Edit Group form which you can use to modify the group in various ways. See Editing Groups for details. To the right of each user record is a View user group link. Clicking on this link displays the same Edit Group form in read-only mode.

To the left of each record is a check box you can use to select the group. You can delete groups by checking these boxes and then clicking on the Delete user groups link at the bottom of the form.