In the Unifyia platform, a group enables the assignment of multiple roles and policies. Essentially, creating a group signifies the role, privileges, and authentication requirements for an organization. For instance, if an organization mandates that employees must possess identities issued with PIV credentials, you can create a group named Employee ID with PIV and assign the role as user.

The groups option in the platform allows you to do the following:

Ensure that you are logged in to the Unifyia platform with your admin credentials to perform the actions described in the succeeding sections.

Add Group

1. Navigate to Configurations > Groups.
2. On the List of Groups page, select Add Group. You will notice two tabs - General Information and Assign Roles.
3. Under the General Information tab, provide a name for the group and a brief description about the group.
4. Select Next. The Assign Roles page is displayed.
5. Under the Assign Roles tab, select the roles to assign to the group. Depending on your organization's policy, you can assign either single or multiple roles to each group. For example:
6. Under the Assign Roles tab, select the roles to assign to the group. Depending on your organization's policy, you can assign either single or multiple roles to each group. For example:
   • If you want users of a group to have a user role, select only the User role.
   • If you want members of a group to hold dual roles, such as User and Sponsor, assign both roles to the group. Users will inherit the permissions and access privileges associated with each role. However, during implementation, the higher-level role takes precedence.

List of Roles

The following are the available roles that can be assigned to a group.

Role	Description
Administrator	Can manage all aspects of onboarding of other privileged users, configurations, integrations, access control, and monitoring. Can create users and assign all types of roles, issue identities, and manage the allowed lifecycle actions of the issued identities.
Sponsor	Can sponsor new users
Registrar	Can enroll/register sponsored users
Adjudicator	Can review user enrollment details and decide whether to approve or deny
Security Officer	Can review user enrollment details and decide whether to approve or deny
Identity Issuer	Can issue identities to users
Helpdesk Operator	Manage lifecycle activities of the issued identities and user-related incidents
User	An applicant who can get approved credentials issued, self-issue additional identities as per organization's policies, and can self manage them.

7. Select + Save. The group is created successfully. You are prompted to add members to the group. Select Yes. The Assign Members tab is displayed.
8. Under the Assign Members tab, search for the required members. Select them and choose Assign Users to Group to add them to the group. Users assigned to a group automatically inherit the roles, permissions, and access privileges defined for that group. To unassign members, select them and choose Remove Members.
9. Select Save. The members are successfully assigned to the group.
10. On the List of Groups page, you will notice the groups added and the count of members assigned to the group.

Search Group

Edit Group

Delete Group