View the Members of a User Group

It can be useful to find out which user accounts are associated with the User Groups on your system. This is especially true on large systems that have many User Groups. Once you know which user accounts are associated with the various User Groups, you can determine what effect any changes to the User Groups might have on your system.

A user account that is associated with a User Group is referred to as a ‘member’ of that User Group. For example, if a user account named 'L King' is associated with a User Group named 'Control St.4', ‘L King’ is a member of ‘Control St.4’. Each user account can be associated with one or more User Groups.

You can view a list of a User Group’s members by selecting the Display Users pick action. This pick action is available from the context-sensitive menu for User Groups (you can only access it if you have the Read permission).

When you select the Display Users action, the Users List is displayed with a filter already in place. The filter restricts the Users List so that it only shows those Users that are associated with the User Group you chose (the Users have the User Group defined in their User Groups configuration settings).

To view a list of a User Group’s members:

1. Log on to ViewX or WebX via a user account that has the Read permission for the User Group in which you are interested.
2. Access the object menu for the User Group (see Display the Object Menu in the ClearSCADA Guide to ViewX and WebX Clients).
3. From the object menu, select the Display Users option.
   The Users List is displayed. It is filtered automatically so that it only includes those Users that have the selected User Group in their User Groups settings.

   A User Pattern is not a 'member' of a User Group, nor is it an actual configured or built-in user, so it will not be included in any Users Lists. To determine the User Groups with which a User Pattern is associated, access the User Pattern's object menu and select the Display References option. Expand the 'Referenced From' branch in the Display References window to view a list of the User Groups that are configured to use that User Pattern.

There are alternative ways of viewing the members of a User Group, for example, you could filter the Users List manually, view the User Group settings on each User Form, or use the Display References pick action. But the easiest and quickest way of accessing the User Group members information is to use a User Group’s Display Users pick action.