Chapter 4. Maintaining groups Security 2016
Changing user group permissions
Security 2016 allows you to edit the permission settings for existing groups.
Note: You are not able to edit the Administrator group, which allows its members to perform every action on all licensed Sage HandiSoft programs.
To edit a user group
1. Click the Groups button on the Security 2016 Access panel. Alternatively, from the File menu, click Groups.
Security 2016
will open the “
Groups
” window.
2.
On the “Groups” window, highlight the group that you want to edit, and click Edit.
Security 2016 will open the “Properties for:” window displaying the settings for the user group you highlighted.
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Figure 23: The "Properties for:" window
The group’s name appears on the window caption bar. In this example, the caption bar will display “Properties for: Accounts” because the “Accounts” group was highlighted.
3.
On the “Properties for:” window, edit the user group information as required.
Field Description
Comment
Apply to Programs
Enter additional information about the user group.
Select the Sage HandiSoft programs for which the user permissions are to be set. For each program that you select, Security 2016 will add a tab for you to set permissions.
4. Click the tab for each Sage HandiSoft program you selected and set the permissions by selecting the relevant action check box.
5. Click OK to save the changes to the user group settings and exit the “Properties for:” window.
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