Manage Groups

To manage groups, follow these steps:

  1. Select the Admin tab, and then the Groups option in the drop-down menu.

    Navigate to the Groups interface

  2. The Groups interface appears.

Using the Groups Interface

The Groups interface has the following information and affordances:

Groups list
Group list

  1. Create group button to create a new folder. See Create a Group.

  2. Search bar to locate specific groups, by Group name or Owner email.

  3. List of existing Groups.

  4. Bulk and individual action selectors.

    When you select several or all groups in the list, Kloudfuse displays a bulk Delete option. See Delete a Group.

  5. Sort for the group list, on Group name, Owner email, or Member count (group size).

  6. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

    Use this to make changes to the owner email, to add group members and configure their permissions, specify group policies, and review effective policies.

  7. Specify the number of rows you can see on each page.

    select the number of rows on page

  8. Navigate across pages by clicking individual page numbers, or forward (forward) and backward (backward) arrows.

    select page numbers

Create a Group

Only Admin users can create new groups.

Follow these steps to create a new group of users:

  1. Click the Create group button at the top of the page.

    Create a new group

  2. The Create Group interface appears.

  3. In the Create Group interface, enter the Name of the group, and Email for the group owner/administrator.

    Here, we create a group named Group1.

    Specify folder naming

  4. Click save (Save).

  5. Kloudfuse notifies you that you successfully added a new group.

The new group now appears in the Groups interface.

Find a Group

In large organizations, it may be hard to find an existing group. Kloudfuse enables you to find groups through our Search function.

  1. In Groups, click the Search bar.

  2. Start typing the key word, and Kloudfuse automatically filters the list of potential matches.

Change Group Owner

When you create a new Group, you must specify the owner by providing their email; see Create group.

To change the group ownership, follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

    rbac group edit initial

  2. Click into the Owner email field.

    Change owner

  3. Change the Owner email. Here, we changed from roza@kloudfuse.com to richard@kloudfuse.com.

  4. Click Update.

    Change owner

Add Group Members

Group members can have one of two roles within the group:

Admin

This member can manage the group.

Member

This member cannot change group parameters or permissions of other members.

To assign members to a group, follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

  2. In the Group Members section, use the Select user drop-down to find a user within your organization.

    Select group member

  3. In the second drop-down, select the member’s permission level within the group.

    rbac group member permission select

  4. Click Add Member (Add Member).

    rbac group member add

  5. The new group member’s information, Email and Permission, appears in the list of Group Members.

    rbac group member added

  6. Proceed to add more users to the group.

Change a Member’s Permissions

Occasionally, you may have to change a group member’s permission. Follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

  2. Select the row for the member where you plan to change the permission.

  3. In the Permission drop down, select the necessary alternative, and click it.

    rbac group member permission change

  4. The new permission level appears in the list of group members.

    rbac group member permission changed

Delete a Group Member

To remove a member from a group, follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

  2. Hover over the member you plan to delete.

  3. Click the delete (Delete) icon.

    rback group delete member

  4. Kloudfuse confirms that the member is no longer in the group.

Set Group Policies

To set policies for the group, follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

  2. Scroll down to Group Policies.

  3. In the drop-down, select a policy that you plan to add to the group.

    Add new policy to the group

  4. Click Add Policy (Add policy).

  5. The new policy is now part of the group.

    New policy added to the group

  6. Add more policies to the group.

    Group has two policies

Delete Group Policies

To delete policies that no longer apply to a group, follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

  2. Under Group Policies, hover over the policy you plan to delete.

  3. When the trashcan (trashcan) icon appears, click it.

    rbac group policy delete

  4. Kloudfuse confirms that the policy has been deleted.

Review Effective Policies

Whenever you apply more than one Policy to a Group, the combination of permissions may not be intuitive.

Kloudfuse displays the effective policies for a group within the Group detail interface.

  1. Hover over the group you plan to Change, and click its name; Edit group details appears.

  2. Scroll down to Effective Policies.

  3. Notice that Kloudfuse specifies policies at the level of each stream type.

    Effective Policies for a group

Delete a Group

As organizational needs change, we recommend that you delete groups that no longer serve a business need.

To delete a group, follow these steps:

  1. Hover over the group you plan to delete.

  2. When the trashcan (trashcan) icon appears, click it.

    Delete a Group

  3. In the Delete Group prompt, click Delete to confirm, or Cancel to stop deleting the folder.

    Confirm deleting a Group

  4. You should see a notification that Kloudfuse deleted the group successfully.

Bulk Delete

Alternatively,

  1. Select one or more folders using the checkbox to the left of the folder row.

    Bulk delete
    Bulk Delete

  2. Kloudfuse displays the number of selected folders and a Delete button.

  3. Click Delete, and follow the these steps.