Groups
Groups let you organize the people in your organization into units that mirror how your organization actually works — teams, departments, projects. You manage them on the Groups page under Directory.
What a group is
A group is a named collection of users. A group has a name, an optional description, and a set of members. A user can belong to any number of groups.
Groups are most useful as a way to talk about a set of people at once. Rather than granting access to twelve individuals, you grant it to the group they all belong to, and it stays correct as people join and leave the group.
Nesting groups
Groups can be nested into a hierarchy: a group can have a parent group, so you can model, say, an “Engineering” group containing “Backend” and “Frontend” sub-groups. This lets your group structure follow your organization chart.
Managing membership
From a group you add and remove members. Adding a user who was previously removed simply reactivates their membership. Membership changes take effect immediately.
Using groups to grant application access
The most direct payoff of groups is application access . You can assign a group to an application, and every member of that group can then sign in to it. Add a new hire to the “Sales” group and they gain access to every application the Sales group is assigned to — with no per-application step.
Related pages
- Users & People — the users you organize into groups
- Application Access — granting app access to a whole group
- Directory Provisioning (SCIM) — creating groups automatically from your IdP