How to create groups in Appian

RE: How to create groups in Appian

bushr3406 — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:22:12 GMT

Amazing! Thank you so much help.

RE: How to create groups in Appian

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:03:21 GMT

A newer feature of Appian is to automatically create the "user groups" when creating a new Application - there was a checkbox you would have needed to un-check if you didn't want it to do this for you initially. But there's no need to delete it if it's already there, since it's not hurting anything. If you want to toy around with creating a group from scratch, just go through the steps and enter a slightly different group name ("AX manually created test group" for instance), which you can just leave sitting there if you want, or delete if you want. It won't make any difference either way until/unless you use it.

RE: How to create groups in Appian

bushr3406 — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:59:14 GMT

I am working on exercise 3: Manage Users and Groups Manage Users In Appian, application security is configured with groups, which contain your application’s users.

Once I get to Build in view to create a Group, I do see an existing group labeled (AX Users) which was created by default when I created the application, Do I need to create a new AX users group or do I need to proceed to edit the default group.

Once I even get in the default AX user group, this is what I see

So I am trying to understand, per the instructions of the lab if I have to just go ahead and create a new user, and if yes, do I need to delete the existing AX user group?

Thanks

RE: How to create groups in Appian

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:44:59 GMT

What do you mean "out of an application"? What is your use case, exactly?

RE: How to create groups in Appian

bushr3406 — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:36:14 GMT

Hi Mike Thanks very much, My next question is, is it possible to create a group out of an application?

RE: How to create groups in Appian

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:07:08 GMT

When looking at an Application package (object view, anyway) it's literally in the "New" dropdown menu.