Create and manage groups

Groups allow you to granularly control access and relevance for teams, departments or any other logical grouping of Workplace Search users. Groups consist of three major items:

From the Workplace Search administrative dashboard, locate the Groups area:

Figure 1. Locating the Groups area

Step 1. Click Create a Group. Provide a name, like Marketing, Operations, Support – whatever fits best.

Step 2. Locate the newly created group, and click Manage. We can now assign users and sources to this group.

Step 3. Assign sources to the group by clicking Manage Shared Sources and selecting sources to associate with the group. Click Update once sources have been selected.

Figure 2. Assigning sources to a group

Step 4. Assign users to the group by clicking Manage users and roles.

Figure 3. Assigning users to a group

From Users and roles, locate Role mappings and Users. Use either interface to assign the new group to all the users who should have access.

See Users and access.

Source prioritization allows you to create a perfectly tailored experience for members of a group, all sharing a common view into the information and data synchronized to Workplace Search. Relevance tuning often differs across teams: for example, while Legal and Accounting departments may share many of the same content sources, an Accounting team may get more value out of a source like Salesforce while the Legal team will likely be heavy users of a Contracts Vault.

Step 1. Locate the group for which you want to tune the prioritization of sources in the Groups area of the Workplace Search admnistrative dashboad, and click Manage.

Step 2. Navigate to Manage Source Prioritization. From here, you can set the relative importance of every source for this group. For example, the Legal Vault source may be the most important repository for members of the Legal team. We can set its priority to a higher value than OneDrive, which comes in handy at times, but isn’t a particularly important source of information. In other words, the higher the value, the more important the data is considered for this particular group.

Figure 4. Prioritizing sources for a group