While routing an object to a group, you have the option of displaying the group as a whole or exploding a group into individual members. By exploding a group into members, you can decide if you want the entire group to be participants in a particular role. For example, if only a select number of users within the group need to be approvers, the other users within the group can be deleted from the role. The exploding of groups into members is defined in the following property in the wt.properties file:

The default value for this property is FALSE. To enable the exploding of groups into members, set the property to TRUE using the xconfmanager. For more information, see “Using the xconfmanager Utility” in the Windchill Help Center.