Managing Groups

Group management gives you the flexibility to select sites within your fleet that you wish to give access to a user.

Creating a Group

1. In the Groups page, click Add Group.
• A New Group window opens.
2. Enter the group name and Create.
• The new group is now created and is listed on your Groups page.

Assigning sites to a Group

1. In the Groups page, click the group name you wish to configure.
• A GroupTab window opens.
2. Click Group Settings tab.
3. Enter the group details:
   • No Template - view group with site-defined template
   • Default Map View - view group with map-view template
   • show all site - view all site graphs assigned to group
   • drop down list of sites - allow user to view graphs of group sites from a drop down list
• Group Name - the name of the group
• Web Template - default No Template; to select site view
• Display Option - default drop down list of all sites; to select group view
• X Co-ordinate - user-defined longitude
• Y Co-ordinate - user-defined latitude
4. Select the sites you wish to add to this group from the drop-down list (The drop-down lists the sites that is available to add to this group; any sites already added to the group will not be on the list).
5. Add Outpost.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add sites to the group.
7. Update.

Adding Users to a Group

1. In the Groups page, click the group name you wish to configure.
• A GroupTab window opens.
2. Click Group Users tab.
3. Click Add User.
• A Create User window opens.
4. Enter the user details.
   • User - read-only access
   • Admin - access to settings and sites
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   • Mobile Installer - m-outpostcentral.com access only (applicable to Client users only)
• User Name - mandatory; the user's login user (has to be unique across all login in the system).
• Password - mandatory; user's password. No password complexity rules applies.
• Email - mandatory; user's email address.
• Disable Password - optional; check to disable password for login with user name only (not recommended).
• Role - mandatory; assign user role by selecting from drop-down list.
5. Type - auto assigned to the group.
6. Create.

Adding or Configuring Alarm Roster

Alarm rosters allow you to manage different list of users for different alarm notifications. This could be from input or offline alarms. See Setting Alarms.

1. In the Groups page, click the group name you wish to configure.
• A GroupTab window opens.
2. Click Alarm Roster tab.
3. Click Add New List... to add a new alarm roster. Otherwise, go to step 6.
• Page view changes.
4. Enter the alarm roster details.
• Recipient List Name - mandatory; enter name of the roster
• Recipient List Description - optional; enter description of the roster
5. Add.
6. From the roster lists, select the roster you wish to configure.
• Page view changes.
7. Enter the SMS or Email details.
• SMS - enter mobile number to send SMS; include the country code. Do not include the "+" before country code. Example - 614123456789
• Email - enter an email address
8. Click on Add icon () to add to list. Repeat to add more SMS or Email details.

Adding Logo

You can also customize the Group page view with a custom logo.

1. In the Groups page, click the group name you wish to configure.
• A GroupTab window opens.
2. Click Logo tab.
3. Click Choose File.
• A Open window opens.
4. Select the image file from your local drive. Click Open.
5. Upload.