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Groups app

Applies to Bravura Identity Identity icon and Bravura Privilege bpa-icon

The Groups app allows users to request changes to group membership, or to create or update groups if they have assigned privileges.

Access to Groups app options is controlled by giving users access to applicable pre-defined requests, as described below.

Group members

All end users can view their group membership and request changes to group memberships via the Groups app. You can configure the Groups app so that users see recommendations of group memberships to add or delete, based on consistency among peers.

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Group owners

Group owners can use the Groups app update groups when they have access to the following pre-defined requests:

Pre-defined request

Description

_GROUP_ADD_MEMBERS_

Add accounts and child groups as members to multiple groups on target systems.

_GROUP_ADD_OWNERS_

Add owners to multiple groups on target systems.

_GROUP_ADD_PARENTGROUPS_

Add parent groups to multiple groups on target systems.

_GROUP_DELETE_

Delete a group on a target system.

_GROUP_DELETE_MEMBERS

Delete members from multiple groups.

_GROUP_DELETE_OWNERS

Delete owners from multiple groups.

_GROUP_DELETE_PARENTGROUPS

Delete parent groups from a multiple groups.

_GROUP_UPDATE_ATTRS

Update attributes on one or more groups.

Product administrators must also configure group attributes in the Resource attributes menu, as described in the example below .

_GROUP_UPDATE_MEMBERS

Add or remove members from a group.

_GROUP_UPDATE_OWNERS

Add or remove owners from a group.

_GROUP_UPDATE_PARENTGROUPS

Add or remove parent groups from a group.

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Group creators

Members of the _GROUP_CREATE_USERS_ user class can use the _GROUP_CREATE pre-defined request to create a group on a target system.

Group report readers

Users who belong to a user class set in system variable GROUPAPP REPORT ACCESS can view and run reports via the Groups app.

In addition, the Python sample script view_group_filter_and_clickable_link.py must be copied to <instance>/plugin and set in the system variable VIEW GROUPS PLUGIN .

See also

When Bravura Identity is licensed, self-service users can also request changes to group membership via the View and update profile menu.

The examples below use settings and users from a demonstration environment. See Viewing / Updating Groups in end-user documentation for more generic procedures for viewing and managing groups .