Create a composite group (requires CREATE GROUP privilege or greater)
Grouper allows you to use two existing groups (called "factors") to define a third (composite) group. You may combine two groups in the following ways:
- UNION includes all members of the two original (factor) groups – "adding"
- INTERSECTION includes entities that belong to both of two original (factor) groups – "members-in-common"
- COMPLEMENT includes entities that belong to the primary ("left) factor group who are not also members of the secondary ("right") factor group – "left minus right"
To create a composite group:
- Place each of your two factor groups in the Group Workspace
- Find or create each factor group. In this example we have the test group we just created (called QS University of Bristol:Personal Groups:Rob's Group in the example) and the QS University of Bristol:Academic faculties:Arts:Staff in our workspace
- Find a group by navigating or searching, and proceed to the Group Summary page.
- Create a factor group using the steps above to create a group and assign members to it. After you assign new members, click "Group Summary" at the bottom of the "Assign Privileges/Add Members" page to proceed.
- Click "Add to Group Workspace" at the bottom of the summary panel.
- Confirm that both factor groups are in the Group Workspace by clicking "Group Workspace" in the "My Tools" segment of the left menu.
- Find or create each factor group. In this example we have the test group we just created (called QS University of Bristol:Personal Groups:Rob's Group in the example) and the QS University of Bristol:Academic faculties:Arts:Staff in our workspace
- Combine the factor groups to make a new, third group (composite)
- Find a parent folder for the group. This should place you on the Browse Groups Hierarchy screen
- If you have permissions to create a group in this folder, you will see the "Manage folders" panel at the bottom of the page. If you do not see this panel, contact your administrator.
- Click "Create Group" at the bottom of the "Manage folders" panel. The Create Group screen will appear. In this example the group will be QS University of Bristol:Personal Groups:Rob's Composite Group
- You can mouse over the field labels to learn more about what to enter in each field
- Find a parent folder for the group. This should place you on the Browse Groups Hierarchy screen
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- Fill the fields in the panel, then click "Make composite" to begin creating a composite group. The "Create composite group" panel will appear.
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- Use the pulldown lists to select the two factor groups and how you wish to combine them.
- The groups appearing in the pulldown lists are those in your Group Workspace
- Assigning "Left group" and "Right group" will only matter if you are using COMPLEMENT ("left minus right") to combine the groups (as in this example).
- Use the pulldown lists to select the two factor groups and how you wish to combine them.
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- Click the "Create composite group" button at the bottom of the panel to create the new composite group