Manage Groups

You can assign users to different user groups. So you can tie some users together and offer similar cloud experiences. At present, you can configure the following for user groups:

• Assign a UI theme to specific user groups (Admin > Settings > Look&Feel)
• Set the default roles
• Specify buckets

The following actions are available in OnApp for user groups:

View User Group

1. Go to your Control Panel > Admin > Groups menu.
2. On the following page, click the label of the required user group to view the following parameters:

• • Roles - roles available to the users within this user group
  • Organizations - vCloud organizations (applicable to vCloud Director only)
  • Bucket - a bucket used by the users within this user group
  • User Buckets - buckets available for assignment to the users within this user group. This parameter relates to restriction sets only.

On this page:

• View User Group
  
• Create User Group
  
• Edit User Group
  
• Assign New User to Group
  
• Change User Group for User
  
• User Group Additional Fields
• Delete User Group

See also:

• Restrictions Sets
• Permissions
  
• Create and Manage User Accounts
• Create and Manage Roles

Create User Group

1. Go to your Control Panel > Admin > Groups menu.
2. On the page that follows, click the Create Group button.
3. On the next page, fill in the user group details: 

• • Label - choose a name for the user group
  • Buckets - select a bucket in the drop-down list that the users within this user group will use
  • Assign vCloud Roles - move the slider to the right to assign vCloud roles
  • Roles - assign roles to the users within this user group
  • User Buckets - specify the list of buckets available for assignment to the users within this user group. This parameter relates to restriction sets only.

       4. Click Save.

Edit User Group

1. Go to your Control Panel > Admin > Groups menu.
2. Click the Actions button next to the user group you want to change, then select Edit. Alternatively, you can click the user group's label, and on the screen that appears, click .
3. Edit the user group details:

• • Label - edit the name of the user group
  • Buckets - select a bucket in the drop-down list that the users within this user group will use
  • Assign vCloud Roles - move the slider to the right to assign vCloud roles
  • Roles - assign roles to the users within this user group
  • User Buckets - specify the list of buckets available for assignment to the users within this user group. This parameter relates to restriction sets only.

      4. Click Save.

Assign New User to Group

You can do this on the Add a New User page as part of the user creation process:

1. Go to your Control Panel > Admin > Users menu.
2. Click the Create User button.
3. In the Roles & Groups section, select the needed user group from the drop-down list.
4. Complete the other user detail fields, and click Save.

Change User Group for User

You can change the group a user is assigned to on the Edit User screen:

1. Go to your Control Panel > Admin > Users menu.
2. Click the Actions button next to the user, then select Edit.
3. Select a user group for the user from the user group drop-down list.
4. Click the Save button.

User Group Additional Fields

User Group Additional Fields allow administrators to create custom fields and use them with the API or a third party system.

As an administrator, you can create additional field via User Groups menu. Then when going to a particular user group, you can use the additional fields as a complementary information. 

To add a new Additional Field:

1. Log in to the Control Panel as an Admin.
2. Go to the Admin > User Groups menu.
3. On the screen that appears, click the User Group Additional Fields button at the bottom of the list.
4. Click Create Additional Field at the bottom of the list.
5. Fill in the form that appears. You can choose the string/integer data type, and set the Default Value that will be displayed if a user group hasn't specified data for this field, or if they have entered information that doesn't match the data type.
6. Click the Create New Field button to finish.

To edit or delete an additional field:

1. Click the Edit icon next to an additional field to change its details.
2. Click the Delete icon next to an additional field to delete it.

Delete User Group

1. Go to your Control Panel > Admin > Groups menu.
2. Click the Actions button next to the user group/organization you want to delete and select Delete.