A user group is a category or classification assigned to a user for security purposes. Membership in a user group determines which of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer’s restricted operations can be performed by a user (see “Restricted Capabilities”). Users within a group typically share responsibilities and perform similar tasks. Users can be reassigned to a different group at any time and can also be assigned to multiple groups simultaneously.

Bentley OpenUtilities Designer provides the following default user groups:

• Guest
• Designers
• Supervisors
• Administrators

For more information about the default set of capabilities assigned to each group, see “Default Security Configuration”.

The New Group dialog box is used to create new user groups. The Group Properties dialog box is used to make changes in the membership of a particular group and in the set of capabilities granted to the group.