Creating and Maintaining User Groups

User groups control the access of users to objects and outputs (and through them, to data). A user has access to an object only if he or she belongs to a user group that is assigned to the object, either explicitly or through inheritance. For more details on user groups, see the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Implementation Guide.

A user group definition consists of a name, description, and a set of object security roles supported by the group (available for assignment to users within the group). Each group must also have an assigned Group Administrator.

You may require the same or very similar user groups, with the same or different users, assigned to different objects. For example, you might have a Study01 user group assigned to your Study01 Application Area. Study02, which has its own Application Area, might require a user group with exactly the same set of roles as Study01. Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub allows you to copy a user group either with or without users. You can then modify the name or roles assigned as necessary. The Group Administrator can add and remove users and/or change their roles within the copied group.

You can find group Administrator tasks, adding roles to a group and assigning users to a group and to roles within the group, in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub User's Guide.

This section contains the following topics:

• Creating User Groups
  To create a new user group:
• Adding Supported Roles to User Groups
  The roles you add to a user group become available for the Group Administrator to assign to users within that user group.
• Assigning a Group Administrator to the User Group
  The Group Administrator is responsible for adding and removing users to a particular user group, and changing users' role assignments within the group.
• Duplicating User Groups
  You can create copies of a user group in two ways: Duplicate only the user group definition with its supported roles or duplicate the definition with its supported roles and also the users assigned to it and their role assignments.
• Modifying User Groups
  How to modify user groups