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Overview

Group-based Security supports organizations who have different departments with different security and business rules and need to leverage a single service desk system. For example, an IT team and an HR team can use a single Intelligent Service Management (ISM) environment but restrict viewing of tickets by the other team. HR tickets with confidential information can only be viewed by members of the HR group. IT members cannot view these tickets in Ticket Center, Advanced Ticket Center, Scratchpad or through Search. Additionally, self-service users can open and view their tickets that are assigned to all groups through the self-service portal, email and the mobile app.


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  • Organization-based security applies as an additional restriction over group-based security, if enabled and vice versa. 

Implications of Enabling Group-based Security

The following sections explain the implication of enabling group-based security on the various aspects of user interaction with the application.

Impacted AreaImpact
Actions

Ticket lists list displays only those tickets which belong to the group that the Agent/Analyst is associated to.

Related TicketsIn the Related Ticket section, agent/analyst can view only those related tickets that are assigned to group which they are associated to. Related tickets that belong to other groups are hidden.
Assigning TicketsA ticket can be assigned only to the agent/analyst associated to the Contacts/Support Groups. The assignment lookup lists only those Contacts/Support Groups that the analyst/agent are associated to.
Ticket Search Ticket Search displays only those tickets that belong to the group the Agent/Analyst are associated to and the agent/analyst must be the ‘Requestor’ or ‘Requested For’ of for those tickets.
Create Ticket Agents/Analysts can log a ticket directly or can use Catalog or Scratchpad to create ticket for any user.


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Approvers from outside the group can be added. They can view the details in the Outstanding Items workspace but not view the ticket details.

Enable Group-based Security

Enabling group-based security mainly impacts Admin/Agent/Analyst and End users’ ability to view and interact with the ticket related data. End users are restricted further only to view their own requests or tickets created as ‘Requested For’. 

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