Creating, editing, and deleting access groups


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Access group management is available to system administrators, workspace administrators, and workspace privileged users.

To create a new access group:

In the Settings view, expand the name of the workspace in which you want to create the access group and click Access groups. A page listing the existing access groups appears.
In the Access Groups section header, click New. A page showing the available access group options appears.
Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Access group options
Option	Description
Group name	Type a name for the new group as you want it to appear to users.
Privileged group	Members of privileged groups can configure the workspace and manage user account and access group definitions. Privileged users have all access rights to all folders and documents in the workspace. Privileged access groups appear with an asterisk (*) after their name in access group lists. For more information about privileged group member permissions, see Understanding user account types.
NEW Description	Type a description of the new group.
Add members to new group	Select members from the Users and Groups lists. To select multiple members, press and hold the Ctrl key while clicking user or group names. Only available when creating a new access group.

Click Create group. The page of existing access groups reappears with the new group added.

To edit an access group's properties:

Note Editing an access group's members is performed separately as described in Adding and removing access group members.

In the Settings view, expand the name of the workspace in which the access group exists that you want to edit and click Access groups. A page listing the existing access groups appears.
On the Actions menu of the property that you want to edit, click Edit properties. A page showing the current access group properties appears.
Select or type options using the descriptions in the preceding table.
Click Save group. The page listing the existing access groups reappears.

To delete an access group:

In the Settings view, expand the name of the workspace from which you want to delete the access group and click Access groups. A page listing the existing access groups appears.
On the Actions menu of the property that you want to delete, click Delete group. A confirmation page appears.
Click Yes, delete group. The page listing the existing access groups reappears with the selected group removed.

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