Group administration
Most group administration takes place in Spotfire Server. Managing licenses and preferences, however, takes place in the Administration Manager in Spotfire Analyst.
For groups that are synchronized from an external source such as an LDAP directory, certain tasks including adding and removing members of the synchronized group, take place in the external environment and not within the Spotfire system.
For more information about groups, see Users & groups introduction.
- Roles and special groups
Spotfire includes a number of special groups that are present at installation and cannot be removed. They define standard roles for administering and using Spotfire. - Creating a new group
You can create a group at the top level of the groups hierarchy, or as a subgroup of an existing group. A subgroup inherits all the settings of its parent group or groups. (To import and export groups, use the Administrator Manager in Spotfire Analyst.) - Adding users to a group
You can add any number of Spotfire users to a group at the same time. - Adding groups to a group
Adding one group to another group creates a hierarchy of groups where a user who is an explicit member of the child group is also, by inheritance, a member of the parent group. - Assigning a primary group to a subgroup
When a group has several parent groups, different values may be set for the same license or preference item in two or more parent groups. To ensure that the child group inherits the default settings of a particular parent group, set that group as the primary group. - Assigning a deployment area to a group
For users to have access to a deployment, you must assign the deployment area that contains the deployment to the appropriate groups. If no deployment area is set for a group, the group members are assigned the default deployment area. - Renaming a group
You can rename only those groups that were added to Spotfire Server after installation. The groups that Spotfire creates automatically, such as Administrator and Script Author, cannot be renamed. Also, externally synchronized groups cannot be renamed in the server. - Removing members from a group
Members of a Spotfire group can be either users or other groups. - Deleting groups from the system
Deleting a group does not delete any of its members from Spotfire; only the group itself is deleted. All users and groups that are members of the deleted group remain in the system. Subgroups that lose their parent group are automatically placed at the top level of the group hierarchy.
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