1.11.2 Relationship between resource groups and user groups

The following figure shows how resource groups, user groups, and roles relate to each other.

Figure 1‒26: Relationship between elements in group management

Resource groups

• Only users in the Admin role can manage resource groups.

• You can create multiple resource groups.

• Each resource group must have a different name.

• Every resource must belong to a resource group, but cannot belong to more than one. You can, however, allocate two separate resources with the same parameters to different resource groups.

• The built-in resource group All Resources is created automatically when you install JP1/AO.

User groups

• Only users with User Management permission can manage user groups.

• You can create multiple user groups.

• Each user group must have a different name.

• Users can belong to multiple user groups.

• You can assign several resource groups to one user group.

• AdminGroup, DevelopGroup, ModifyGroup, and SubmitGroup are created automatically as built-in user groups when you install JP1/AO.

Roles

• You can assign roles to resource groups. Only one role can be assigned to each resource group when assigning resource groups to user groups.

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