Creating User-Defined Security Groups

User-defined security groups are used to control access to various entities and displays within the Plant Applications Client program. You can create as many security groups and assign as many members to those groups as you need.

There are two ways to add security groups to Plant Applications. You can either create new security groups, or you can import security groups from a different Plant Applications server. For more information about Proficy Workflow and Proficy Vision security, refer to the documentation for those products.

To create a new security group

1. Expand Security Management.

2. Right-click Security Groups and click New Security Group. An editable field is created inside the folder.

3. Type in the name of the new security group and press ENTER.

On each Plant Applications server, your security group names must be unique.

5. Assign members to the new security group. How?

To import a security group

1. Open the Excel workbook that contains the exported security group's configuration information.

2. In the Excel workbook, under the Selected column, type an X in the cell that corresponds to the items that you want to import.

3. In the Plant Applications Administrator, expand Security Management.

4. Right-click Security Groups and click Import Configuration.

5. Click OK to complete the import.

6. Refresh the server to see the new imported security group.

See Also

• Adding Members to a Role

• Adding Site Users

• Assigning members to a Security Group

• Creating a role-based site user

• Creating Security Roles

• Role-based Security

• Site Users

• The Administrator Security Group

• User-defined Security Groups