Inheritance between user groups and individual users
A user can be a member of any number of user groups. When a user is a member of a user group, that user inherits certain features and permissions of the user group.
Inheritance of roles is to be distinguished from inheritance of user attributes.
Role inheritance
A user who is a member of a user group inherits the roles of this user group for each work item.
If the agent determination function finds a user group as the agent for a work item, all members of the user group will inherit the roles of the user group for this work item. Role inheritance is restricted to this work item.
Example
A work item is in the workflow task "Release FI invoice" (role AREL). User group "A" has the role AREL. User "B" is a member of the user group and only has the role AVAG.
User group "A" is found as the agent for the work item. User "B" now inherits the roles of the user group, that is, the role AREL. User "B" can process the work item.
Attribute inheritance
A user who is a member of a user group only inherits the company code user attribute of this user group (for example, the attribute CC_ALL for all company codes or the attribute CC_<CoCode> for a specific company code).
Other user attributes cannot be inherited. The assignment of all other user attributes takes place in User Administration for the individual user. For more information, see "Attributes" tab.
A user report is available for assigning one or more user attributes to multiple users at the same time. For more information, see Mass change to xSuite users (Report /WMD/WF_XF_USR_UPDATE).