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== Creating Account Groups ==
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= Overview =
  
* Account Groups can be used to control which staff members have access to particular accounts. There are two basic components for setup.
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Account Groups are used to control which staff users have access to a given customer account or set of customer accounts. The features of Account groups include:
* An account group is created, and accounts can be added or removed from the group.  You can change the settings of the account group such that people assigned to the group are denied or allowed to see the accounts contained therein by default.
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* Note that an account can belong to more than one account group.
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* preventing access to accounts in an account group by staff users
* An organisational unit is assigned to the account group.  A staff user in turn is assigned to the organisational unit.
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* Permitting access to accounts in an account group by staff users
* When a staff member belongs to an Org Unit that is assigned to an Account Security Group called "Sydney Accounts", for example, when that user creates new customer accounts, the default home account security group for the customer account will also be "Sydney Accounts".
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* grouping accounts and applying a [[Products/Pricing/Price Books|custom price book]]
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* automatically adding new accounts to an account group when the account is created by a staff user with '''allow''' access to the account group.  
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Account groups are utilised by the [[Agent Management|Agents]] module to restrict Agents to only being able to access accounts that they create themselves, or granted access to explicitly.
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An account can belong to multiple account groups. Account groups should not be confused with [[Account Management/Account Profiles | account profiles]] where a customer can only belong to one account profile.
  
 
== Setup an Account Group ==
 
== Setup an Account Group ==

Revision as of 11:41, 23 June 2016

Overview

Account Groups are used to control which staff users have access to a given customer account or set of customer accounts. The features of Account groups include:

  • preventing access to accounts in an account group by staff users
  • Permitting access to accounts in an account group by staff users
  • grouping accounts and applying a custom price book
  • automatically adding new accounts to an account group when the account is created by a staff user with allow access to the account group.

Account groups are utilised by the Agents module to restrict Agents to only being able to access accounts that they create themselves, or granted access to explicitly.

An account can belong to multiple account groups. Account groups should not be confused with account profiles where a customer can only belong to one account profile.

Setup an Account Group

  • Go to the Admin Menu > Account Groups

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  • In the setup, the group Access Codes are as follows
    • See All Accounts. This allows a staff member to see all accounts in OR out of the group. It is akin to a super user that has full privileges to all accounts.
    • Allow Some. The staff member can only see accounts contained in this account group.
    • Deny Some. The staff member will be denied access to the accounts in the account group.
  • If this group is being used to control security, the Group Type should be "Security Group".

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Once you have saved your account group, you can then add or remove accounts to the account group.

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  • Simply find and check the box next to the account. Click add, then Save Account Group.

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Assign Org Unit to Account Group

  • A Staff member is assigned to an Org Unit.
  • An Org Unit can be assigned to an Account Group. In this way, one or more staff members can have their access lifted or restricted to seeing certain accounts. The screenshot below depicts this.

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