Indirect Role Assignments via Groups

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have created a Group structure in our EP6 SP12 environment as follows

Employee

______Group1

______Group2

|______Group3

Groups1/2/3 being assigned to the group Employee. I then assigned each of the Group1/2/3 a role

However users assigned to the Group Employee do not see the roles assigned in the lower groups, shouldnt these appear to the user and if so why are they not ?

Regard

Richard

[Former Member]

Hi Richard,

Teecheu is absolutelly right.

You can achive this "reverse inheritance" using roles instead of groups.

If you create a Role Employee, and add under it the 3 Roles Role1/2/3, then every user with the role Employee will see Roles1/2/3 content.

Hope that helps,

Yoav.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Think of the Group structure in the Object Oriented way. Employee is the parent of Group1/2/3. Group1/2/3 inherit the properties of Employee, but Employee does not inherit anything from its children.

Users assigned to the Group Employee have only the properties that Employee has. If Employee does not have the role that Group1/2/3 have, the users assigned to Employee will never get the role assigned to Group1/2/3.

Correct me if i am wrong if someone has a better idea.

Teecheu Loh