Deleting Groups
Group information is stored in Windchill group objects that are stored in the Windchill database (and referenced throughout Windchill) as well as in group entries that are stored in a directory service.
Deleting a group disables the corresponding Windchill group object and removes the group from all of the groups to which the deleted group was a member. This does not change users’ worklist access or access control permissions for participants that were in the group being deleted. However, users lose the navigation access defined for the deleted group, unless the user has permissions assigned at the user level.
When you decide to delete a group, you have the choice of either deleting only the Windchill references to the group, or deleting both the corresponding Windchill references and the group directory entry.
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To delete group directory entries, you must have write permission to the directory service where the group entry is stored. Deleting a group does not delete the users who have the deleted group as their group attribute.
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Deleting a group consists of two major activities:
1. Delete the Windchill group references and, possibly, the associated group directory entries.
2. Clean up the associated worklist and access control permissions.
Group Deletion Actions
To delete one or more Windchill groups, use the following procedure:
1. Add the group you want to delete to the Participant Administration table. For more information, see Finding Participants.
2. Delete groups by selecting either of the following from either the Actions menu or the right-click actions menu:
◦ Delete from Windchill 
deletes the selected groups only from Windchill.
deletes the selected groups only from Windchill.◦ Delete from Windchill and Windchill Directory Server 
deletes the selected groups from both Windchill and the directory service where the group entries are stored.
deletes the selected groups from both Windchill and the directory service where the group entries are stored.| | This action is not available for groups that are owned by a read-only directory server. |
3. From the confirmation window, click OK.
The groups are deleted and removed from the table.
4. For each group deleted, perform the Deleted Group Clean-Up activities.
Deleted Group Clean-Up
After deleting a group, manually perform the following clean-up steps:
• Reassign any worklist items assigned to the group. See Reassigning a Task for more information.
• If needed, create new access control rules to restore user permissions that were lost when the group was deleted.
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