Set up Groups

All AVEVA P&ID projects have five set groups supplied with them:

• System Admin

• Designer

• Drawing Manager

• Drawing User

• User Defined

Additional groups may be set up if required.

The groups supplied with a project each correspond to a predefined role (System Administrator, Designer, Drawing Manager and Drawing User), each with its own permissions. Any additional groups set up are granted permissions by assigning one of the roles to them, so that they "inherit" their permissions regarding objects from the role they are assigned.

Unlike object permissions, area permissions are not inherited by user-created user groups from the role they are allocated, but are instead assigned to them separately. This provides the flexibility required to grant any number of different groups of users different levels of access to different areas and their drawings.

Refer to Area Security Settings for the procedure for assigning area access rights to groups.

Alternatively, multiple user defined groups can be created to associate each group with access to specific users, objects and areas.

Click Groups in the left-hand pane to view the current list of groups:

The groups supplied with the project cannot be edited or deleted. However, additional groups may be created, and subsequently edited and deleted.