PDM what happens to group settings when a user is in more than one group.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 4:39 pm
Not so much a question as an observation. I'm still trying to figure out the right question to ask concerning this.
It appears that if you have users in more than one group and they have some settings different than the group, when you go to edit the group settings instead of getting some form of tri-stateable check boxes you get carte-blanche. First time I was hurriedly trying to add a single item to the right click menu for our design engineers group I didn't imagine that it would actually clear out the menu. It does. So any time I'm trying to change a group setting and it's cleared out I just cancel and move on to something else. Only ways I know around it is to do each user in the group manually, temporarily remove the users that are in other groups (not easy to know who they are without looking, thank goodness we can have more than one Administration tool process open at a time) or completely rebuild the groups so that no user is in more than one group.
In my simpleton mind a simple tri-state check box would do the trick here: cleared = remove for all in the group, checked = add for all users in the group, tri-state = do not change for any users.
It appears that if you have users in more than one group and they have some settings different than the group, when you go to edit the group settings instead of getting some form of tri-stateable check boxes you get carte-blanche. First time I was hurriedly trying to add a single item to the right click menu for our design engineers group I didn't imagine that it would actually clear out the menu. It does. So any time I'm trying to change a group setting and it's cleared out I just cancel and move on to something else. Only ways I know around it is to do each user in the group manually, temporarily remove the users that are in other groups (not easy to know who they are without looking, thank goodness we can have more than one Administration tool process open at a time) or completely rebuild the groups so that no user is in more than one group.
In my simpleton mind a simple tri-state check box would do the trick here: cleared = remove for all in the group, checked = add for all users in the group, tri-state = do not change for any users.