Creating New Security Groups

BigTime ships with a half-dozen standard security groups that most firms find adequate. You can setup some of your users as administrators, some of them as "directors" and the rest as "everyone" users and that's typically enough.

If you have other users whose rights you can't readily associate with one of the built in groups, you can create up to 50 security groups of your own in the system. To add a new group to BigTime, just follow these directions:

1. Goto the main security page in BigTime (select the Tools...System Settings...Security menu item).
2. Click click on the "add/edit security groups" link in the Information Box on this page. You'll see a list of the existing security groups.
3. Add/Edit. You can click on any of these groups to edit its information, or you can click the ADD button to add a new security group.
4. You'll need to give the group a name and a description. Then click SAVE.
5. Edit the Security Rights. Return to the Tools...System Settings...Security menu where you can add whatever security rights you'd like to this group. Remember that security rights are cumulative, so you can use your groups to supplement the "everyone" group if that is easier (then, you would expect users to be a member of EVERYONE and your new group).