A group consists of one or more users who need to work with PTC RV&Ss. The groups used by PTC RV&S are defined in your authentication realm and imported using the Groups dialog box. To avoid authentication errors, group names must be different from all user names.

You can set up groups to be recognized in PTC RV&S. Many companies have groups comprising numerous team members, or users. PTC RV&S follows this business model by allowing you to set up groups to put the users in. For example, you can create a group called Team Leaders that only team managers belong to, or you can create a group called

Code Reviewers that engineers, quality assurance specialists, and team leaders belong to.

Once you have imported or created your database of PTC RV&S groups, you can choose to deactivate any group that no longer actively uses PTC RV&S. When large numbers of groups are involved, deactivating groups can help to maintain server performance by reducing the number of searches PTC RV&S has to perform. PTC RV&S does not search the realm for groups identified as inactive or display inactive groups for selection in pick lists. For more information on how to deactivate a group, see Deactivating Groups.

If a group is no longer required on your system, you can also choose to delete that group from PTC RV&S. For more information on deleting a group, see Deleting Groups.