# Managing Group Permissions

## Overview

Groups make it easier to organize user access rights within FactFinder's Management Interface.

To simplify the management of user access rights, you may gather selected roles into a group, and assign these roles to one or more users, simply by associating the user(s) to the corresponding group.

By using **Add group**, you can define a new group, to which you may selectively assign appropriate roles. Beneath the roles you have the option to save the selected roles for this group.

The group overview page is an individual tab ![](/files/Ph63z0daepEWYQihI5Tp) and contains a list of all currently active groups ![](/files/2XF0kf1Bm7Z35I6UtFNL) and their roles ![](/files/cVfuaDKK4FYgURysSN7J).

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You can add group via the **ADD A GROUP** button ![](/files/dOZlcoZrhcFshT4JyY3F).

You can search for a specific group by name ![](/files/Ehk1tMw4qBIWvCgJj7rh) or filter out groups by specific roles ![](/files/UipZ5ADW4CYdVObCmdDS).

If you want to edit a group, click on the corresponding pencil icon ![](/files/afMFqoHYxlD3P4x4s54e).

> Please note that by making changes to the group, you also send these changes to all users assigned to the group at the same time.

If you want to delete a group, click on the X icon ![](/files/heY1jGf0d6KIgQt5tmq5).

## Creating new Group

On the configuration page of the group, you then only have to define the desired name ![](/files/Ph63z0daepEWYQihI5Tp) and select necessary roles by clicking checkboxes ![](/files/Ehk1tMw4qBIWvCgJj7rh).

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> Groups streamline your administrative work by offering a centralized way to manage roles with identical permissions. For example: if you have multiple users with different areas of responsibility working on the search environment, creating groups for each task makes sense. In doing so, you make sure that each user only makes changes in their respective areas and only sees the relevant modules. An added advantage is streamlining the UI, by only displaying menu points the user needs to see.


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