Silva offers the ability to group users together
and assign a role to a whole group at once. This means whenever a group has a role
in a location and a user is a member of that group, the user will also have
this role. The group system can be used to manage small groups of Authors and
Editors, but is particularly useful when managing the Viewer role, in which
case groups could have a large amount of members.
Note: For Groups to work the Groups product must be installed by the Manager.
Managing the role assignments of groups is done in much the same way as managing the role assignments of users. The only difference is that groups are not looked up in a separate screen; they are always available in the groups list in the right column of the Access Screen.
Further details at Groups management
To add a group in the Access Screen click on groups admin….
Note: If you do not see the “group roles” section in your Access Screen, your web administrator will need to add the
Groups Product to your Silva installation.
Click on groups admin....
Fig. 1 Adding a group.
Fill in the id
in “add a group” and select the type of group from the drop down list.
Fig. 2 Naming the new group.
Then click save, or save and edit if you wish to add people into the group who are already members of the site.
To add users to the Group click on groups admin….
Fig. 3 Adding users to a normal group.
Type in the users name or part name and
press search. Select the name you
want from the search results.
Fig. 4 Selecting users.
Press the up arrows on the access button to get to the form to select a role for the group. Highlight the group and select the role from the select role list.
Fig. 5 Exisiting groups.
Further Information:
Groups Management
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