Managing User Permissions

The Manage User feature permission enables users who are not in the Administrator user group to create, manage and delete user accounts. This permission is assigned to a user group on the Feature Permissions tab. Once assigned, users from that user group can access the User and User Group features.

This permission helps companies with many projects to spread out the administrative effort of adding, editing, and deleting users and user access. Although a user may have this permission, a few restrictions and rules apply. A user with this permission cannot:

• Grant or remove project permissions to projects that this user does not also have access to.
• Delete a user who has access to other projects. For example, if you have access to Projects Z and Y, while User A has access to Projects Y and X, you cannot delete User A from Project X since you do not have access to that project.

As with any other feature permission, this permission is assigned to a user group. If a user belongs to more than one user group and needs this permission in more than one project, ensure that you assign the permission to each user group where the user needs this permission. If you only want one user in the group to have this permission, create a new user group with the Manage User feature permission enabled, and assign the user to the new user group.

To assign the 'Manage Users' permission to a user group

1. Click the Area menu arrow > Administration.
2. On the View menu, click User Groups.
3. Click next to the user group you wish to modify.
4. On the Feature Permissions tab, expand Tools > Security.
5. Select the Manage Users check box.
6. To save the changes and keep the form open, click > Save.

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To save the changes and close the form, click > Save and Exit.