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Managing Groups

To manage groups, you must be a member of the administrator role in order to access the Administration menu in the JReport Server console.

Before managing groups, you need to first select the realm in which the groups are. Then in the server console, point to Administration on the system toolbar, and then click Security > Group from the drop-down menu to display the Group page.

The following lists the group management tasks.

• Creating a new group
  1. Click the New Group link. The New Group dialog appears.

     

  2. Provide the name and description and specify a parent group for the new group.
  3. To give the group the privilege of publishing resources to JReport Server or of viewing advanced resource properties information, select the corresponding checkbox.
  4. Click OK, the new group is then added into the group table, which consists of the following columns.

     Column Name	Description
     Name	Lists the group names. You can view and edit group properties in the Edit Group dialog by clicking the underlined group name.
     Members	Edits members of the specified group. Click the underlined member(s) to edit the members. Name Lists the name of the members that the group holds. Type Specifies the type of the members that the group holds. Authentication Specifies the group members' authentication type: Local or LDAP. Remove Removes the specified members from the group. Add Members Shows the members that can be added to the group.
     Control	Controls the groups. Delete Deletes the specified group. Groups that have child members or parent members cannot be deleted.

• Searching for groups
  On the search toolbar above the group table, type in the text of the group names you want to search for and the groups containing the matched text will be listed. You can then click to specify the search options. The search toolbar treats the group names as strings and searches by consecutive text. To cancel the search operation, clear the text or click .
  • Highlight All
    Specifies whether to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Specifies whether to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Specifies whether to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• Editing the privileges of a group
  In the group table, click the name of the role, then in the displayed dialog, add or remove privileges for the group and click OK.
• Editing members of a group
  You can edit members of a group, such as adding a new member, or removing a member from the group. To do this, in the group table browse to the specific group, click the member(s) link, then edit the members of the group as follows:
  • To remove a member from the group, check the member and then click the Remove button.
  • To add a member to the group, click the Add Members link, check the new member, and then click the Add button.

  Notes:

  • A group can have more than one child member and parent member.
  • A parent member cannot be added to the current group as its child member.
• Deleting a group
  If you find a group is no longer required, you can delete it by clicking the corresponding Delete link in the Control column of the group table. However, groups that are not empty, having child members or parent members, cannot be deleted.

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