Manage your groups as an Administrator.
In ProcessMaker Platform, a group is a set of users and/or other groups that have the following attributes:
All members of the same group are assigned the same set of permissions. Permissions are additive with those configured for individual users: if a group has permissions that group members do not have in their user accounts, those users are granted those group permissions. See Permission Descriptions for Users and Groups.
Optionally, one or more groups can be selected so that the group's members can start and/or cancel Requests associated with a Process. See Edit Process Configuration and Add and Configure Start Event Elements.
Use groups to flexibily manage multiple users and multiple groups to more easily organize roles, user types, or other categories within your organization.
Organize multiple groups within one group to more flexibly manage permission categories.
The following attributes apply to configuring multiple groups within another:
Notifications: When a member of one group triggers an event, such as starting a Request, all members in that group receive the notification. To more flexibly manage notifications across follow this best practice.
Task assignment to the Group Manager: When a Task is assigned to the group manager, that Task assigns to the group manager configured to the parent group. The group managers to the child groups within the parent group are ignored.
ProcessMaker Platform displays all groups in one table that Administrators throughout your organization have created. This makes it easy to manage groups.
Follow these steps to view all groups in your organization:
Log on to ProcessMaker Platform.
Click the Admin option from the top menu. The Users page displays.
The Groups page displays the following information in tabular format about groups:
Name: The Name column displays the name of the group.
Description: The Description column displays the description for the group.
Status: The Status column displays one of the following statuses for the group:
Active: An Active group is one to which user accounts can be assigned as members.
Inactive: An Inactive group is one to which user accounts cannot be assigned. When a group becomes inactive, user accounts that were members of that group are no longer members.
#Users: The # Users column displays how many users are members of the group.
Modified: The Modified column displays the date and time the group was last modified. The time zone setting to display the time is according to the ProcessMaker Platform instance unless your user profile's Time zone setting is specified.
Created: The Created column displays the date and time the group was created. The time zone setting to display the time is according to the ProcessMaker Platform instance unless your user profile's Time zone setting is specified.
If no groups exist, the following message displays: No Data Available.
Control how tabular information displays, including how to sort columns or how many items display per page.
Create a new group.
Follow these steps to create a group:
View all groups. The Groups page displays.
Click the +Group button. The Create Group screen displays.
In the Name field, enter the name of the group. This is a required field.
In the Description field, enter a description of the group.
Click Save. The Group Details tab displays for the new group to specify groups members and/or permissions to assign the new group. See Edit a Group.
Edit a group.
Follow these steps to edit a group:
Edit settings for any of the following in the group:
Follow these steps to edit the following information about the group as necessary:
In the Name setting, edit the name of the group. This is a required setting.
In the Description setting, edit the description of the group.
From the Status drop-down menu, select the status of the group from one of the following options:
Active: An Active group is one to which user accounts can be assigned as members.
Inactive: An Inactive group is one to which user accounts cannot be assigned. When a group becomes inactive, user accounts that were members of that group are no longer members.
Enable Allow to set a Password to allow members of this group to log on with username and password credentials, which enhances the security with SSO enabled. If this option is disabled, then as a best practice block the option to set or change the password.
Click Save.
The custom home page and menu are configured separately.
See the following home page configurations for the group:
A dashboard displays important and relevant business management information (BMI) and key performance indicators (KPI) to specific business stakeholders when they need it. After the group's user logs on to ProcessMaker Platform, the dashboard displays instead of the default ProcessMaker page.
Ensure that at least one dashboard exists in your ProcessMaker Platform instance.
The group's member does not experience the change until the next time that user logs on.
Follow these steps to select the dashboard for the group's members home page:
From the Dashboard drop-down menu, select the dashboard as the home page for the group.
Click Save.
See the following sections for information to redirect to a Collection or Saved Search since both require unique conditions to configure properly: