Create a group manually

When you manually create a group, you can add users and other groups to it and assign roles to the group. You can also associate the group with a parent group.

If you are using Content Services (Deprecated), you can select the Select This Option For Pushing Users And Groups Into Registered External Principal Storage Providers option on the Domain Management page to push the information for any new users or groups that you create in Content Services (Deprecated).

  1. In Administration Console, click Settings > User Management > Users And Groups, and then click New Group.

  2. Complete the General Settings section and click Next. Canonical Name and Group Name are mandatory attributes.

    The Canonical Name is a unique identifier for the group. Each group and user in a domain must have a unique canonical name. Select the System Generated checkbox to let User Management assign a unique value, or clear the checkbox and specify a custom value for the Canonical Name.

    Avoid using underscore characters (_) in canonical names, for example, sample_group. When you search for groups based on their canonical name, those containing underscore characters are not returned.

  3. To add users and groups to this new group, click Find Users/Groups and do these tasks:

    • In the Find box, type your search criteria.

    • In the In list, select Users, Groups, or Users and Groups.

    • In the Using list, select Name, Email, or User ID.

    • Select the domain, select the number of items to display and click Find.

    • In the search results, select the check boxes for the users and groups to add to this new group and click OK.

  4. Click Next.

  5. To add this new group to other existing groups, click Find Groups and do these tasks:

    • In the Find box, type your search criteria.

    • Select the domain, select the number of items to display, and click Find.

    • In the search results, select the check boxes for the groups that the new group belongs to and click OK.

  6. Click Next.

  7. To assign roles to the group, click Find Roles, select the check boxes for each role to assign to the group and click OK. Users in the group inherit roles that are assigned at the group level.

  8. Click Finish.

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