User groups

Like many departments, a company might have several user groups. Palm Tree Publications has Julia Maurer, an Editorial manager in the Germany office and John Stucki, a website manager also in the Germany office. Both are managers but belong to different departments, thanks to the user group called Managers that contains a number of users belonging to different departments. Let's go ahead and create them.

User groups provide a way to group users independently of the organizations to which they belong. Administrators can define a user group and assign the user group as a member of a site to make all of its users members automatically.

User groups give some of the best solutions. They help to simplify the mapping of several roles to a group ...

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