External Repository User Groups

When you connect a document vault to an external repository using the technology, all or some of the user groups in the external repository are imported to , depending on your connector configuration.

The External Repository User Groups view in allows you to manage and refine associations between users or user groups and external repository users or external repository user groups. When you associate an user or user group with an external repository user group, the user or user group inherits the access rights of the external repository user group. This way you can refine the access rights of an user to external repository content.

To refine access rights of external repository content, you must map external repository user groups with users and user groups in .

Depending on your connector configuration, automatic associations between users or user groups and external repository users or external repository user groups may be established in external repository connections. See Automatic Association for more information.

For more information on , see intelligent_metadata_layer.html#intelligent_metadata_layer.
Note: External Repository User Groups is visible only if the selected vault has one or more active external repository connections.

Complete the following steps to associate an user or user group with an external repository user group:





  5. Select External Repository User Groups.
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  6. In the , double-click an external repository user group.
    Result:The User Group Properties dialog is opened.
  7. To associate an user or user group with the selected external repository user group, click the Add... button.
    Result:The Select Users or User Groups dialog is opened.
  8. Select the user or user group that you want to associate with the selected external repository user group and then click Add.
  9. Click OK to close the User Group Properties dialog.
The selected user or user group is now associated with the selected external repository user group, and the user or user group has the same access rights to the external repository content as the external repository user group when the associated user accesses the external repository with .