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A manual group is one you build by hand: you add and remove members directly, and the membership stays exactly as you set it. Reach for a manual group when membership doesn’t follow a rule: a project team, a pilot cohort, or any ad-hoc set of users.

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Direct members and effective users

A manual group’s direct members are whatever you add to it by hand, and a member can be a user or another group, including an Auto Group. Nesting groups lets you model your organization and roll smaller groups up into larger ones. The group’s page reflects this with two views:
  • Members: the direct members you added: users and groups, each labeled by type.
  • Effective Users: the fully-resolved list of only the users, found by expanding every nested group recursively. This is who actually gains access when you assign the group to an application.
The Members tab of a manual group named Accuhive Brands, listing one direct member 'Domain - accuhive.com' of type Group, with an Effective Users tab alongside Members.

A manual group's Members tab: a direct member can be another group (here, an Auto Group). The Effective Users tab resolves the membership down to individual users.

Roll several Region Auto Groups up into a manual Super Region group: everyone in those Region groups is included automatically, and membership follows as users move, with no upkeep on the umbrella group.

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Create a manual group

1

Add the group

In Directory → Groups, add a group and give it a name and description.
2

Add members

Add users, or add other groups to nest them. Membership stays exactly as you set it until you change it.
3

Assign access

Assign the group to applications so its members gain access. See Assigning access.
Creating a new manual group with the Add new member panel open, toggled to Group, selecting the group 'Domain - accuhive.com' to add as a member.

Adding a member to a manual group: toggle between a user and a group.

Membership is yours to manage; it doesn’t update on its own. When who-needs-access follows an attribute (department, location, and so on), use an Auto Group instead so it stays current.

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Next steps

Groups overview

How manual, built-in, and Auto Groups compare.

Auto Groups

Let membership compute itself from a profile attribute.