Rational DOORS groups

Create groups of users to whom you want to give the same access to data. You can assign access to the group, and each user in the group has that access to the data.

For example, you might want all the engineers in your company to have full access to a particular module. The database manager creates the Engineering group, which contains all the engineers in your company. Instead of having to set up the access rights for each user individually, you set up the access rights for the whole Engineering group. If a new engineer joins your company, the database manager just adds them to the Engineering group, and they automatically get access to your module.

Each user can be in lots of different groups.

How group rights and user rights interact

The following picture shows how the access rights for individual users and groups interact. It shows how to figure out what access rights you have to a piece of data. It assumes that you have read access to the data, otherwise you cannot see it and so you cannot click the Access tab.

A user is included in the system generated group Everyone else if they do not have an individual access entry and they are not included in any other group.

access flow chart

If a user is part of a group that has been given access rights to a project, and that user also has an individual entry, the user has the access defined in the individual entry.

If you do not have your own entry and you are in two or more groups that have entries, you have the access rights for all your group entries combined. For example, if one of your groups has read and modify access, and another has read and create access, you have read, modify, and create access.


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