What is a group?

What is a group?

A group represents a project in Teamcenter. Groups contain members (users) who take on a role or multiple roles in the group. Groups represent data ownership and therefore control data access. Two groups are provided with Teamcenter: dba and system.

• Groups are defined along project lines, not functional lines, but can define third-party organizations such as suppliers.

• A group member can be a member of many groups. For example, Robert Green can belong to the high_performance and standards groups.

Groups make up the core of your organization structure. As a user with DBA privileges, you use the Organization application to:

• Create, modify, and delete groups.

• Manage subgroups within the Organization tree.

• Assign default volumes to a group.

• Assign authorized data access privileges to a group.

What is a subgroup?

A subgroup is a group with another group designated as its parent. A subgroup can also be designated as a parent group itself. The position of subgroups within the Organization hierarchy can be managed by parenting and reparenting groups.

• Subgroups are an excellent way to organize your users.

• Subgroups inherit access permissions, volumes, and preferences from their parent.

What is the default group?

When a user belongs to more than one group, one of them is designated as the default group. A default group must be designated for each user so that Teamcenter can store project files in a central location (for example, in the group volume).

The user's default group is used at logon unless another group is specified.

When Teamcenter Security Services is installed and the TC_SSO_SERVICE the environment variable is set in the tc_profilevars file, logon uses the default Teamcenter group.

What is the parent group?

A parent group is used to organize a configuration of related subgroups.

What is the System administration group?

A Teamcenter administrator also referred to as database administrator (DBA) or user with DBA privileges is any member of a special system administration group and is the primary person responsible for maintaining the Teamcenter software, data volumes, and user accounts. Teamcenter creates one system administration

group (dba) during installation. You can create others as needed.

What is the system group?

Teamcenter provides a special system group that is used for performing specialized tasks in an overall system administration strategy. Currently, members of the system group are primarily responsible for archiving and restoring objects. 

                        Although any Teamcenter user can mark an object for archive or restore, only members of the system group can perform the actual object archive and restore operations. This restriction also applies to members of a system administration group; they cannot perform archive and restore operations either.

Although a user could belong to both the system group and a system administration group, members of the system group do not inherently have the privileges required to perform all Teamcenter administrative tasks.

What is a group administrator?

A group administrator is a group member who can add, modify, or remove group members.

Group administrators must be members of the group they are administering and these privileges are only valid within that group.

What are Group names?

A group is identified uniquely by the combination of its name and its parent. Two groups with different parents may have the same name, but two groups with the same parent may not.

What are Group hierarchies?

what is a process of Moving groups within the hierarchy and volume access?

How to create a group in Teamcenter?

As a user with DBA privileges, you create project-oriented groups to organize clusters of users.