Associating Groups and Categories

As mentioned earlier, it is necessary to assign or associate Categories and Groups as the Categories are being defined because a Group must be assigned to a Category for the Category Permissions window to be active. Normally, there is one Group per Category, but there is no maximum requirement, so many Categories could be assigned to a Group.

This association is important because, after a resource is assigned to a Group, the resource gets the use permissions assigned to the Group and the data permissions and restrictors assigned to the Category assigned to the Group. This association defines all that a user can do or see while operating in the system.

The Case for Multiple Categories

This section explores a complex ...

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