Overview of User Groups
Introduction to user groups
User groups are a collection of security settings to which individual users can be added. Rather than creating users and applying security settings to each one, you create a user group, apply the required settings to the group, then add the required users. The users within the group automatically inherit the security settings.
User groups determine:
- what modules a user has access to.
- what menus and menu options can be accessed.
- what data maintenance dialogs (e.g. ledger, nominal, account, etc.) together with the tabs within them, can be accessed.
- what security roles the user has, and therefore, what additional functions they can carry out.
- What level of data access the user has.
- What documents/input forms the user can use.
User group settings are applied via the Financials Administrator module (additional login required) accessed via IRIS Financials.