This article provides information regarding managing Group lists records. Select Settings/Configuration/Groups from the navigation menu.
Prerequisites:
None
In this article:
Overview
Essentially, a Group can be defined as a collection of departments, divisions, office locations, team names, etc.
New deployments come pre-configured with sample Group records for Permitting and Design Review purposes, which can be edited as desired.
Groups are no different than other list types. They are managed via a dedicated page to allow clients to implement a different set of edit permissions than those configured for the List Management page, if desired.
Usage
Groups, for either Permitting or Design Review projects, are used in the following manner:
- Users who conduct plan review must be associated to one or many Groups, for either or both purposes.
- Each plan review Assignment is associated to a Group.
- The Assignment Status can only be changed by users who are members of the group.
Adding Group records
- Select the + button to open the Group detail form.
- Enter a descriptive Label.
- Enter a four (4) character Abbreviation. (Alpha and numeric characters only.)
- Choose an Item Color.
- The Group’s color determines the sketch colors used for plan review.
- We do not recommend using gray or black tones for group colors.
- Ensure the ‘is Default’ toggle is off. Group lists will not utilize the default setting.
- To sort the group values alphabetically in dropdown controls, set to the sort order to zero.
- Click the Save button (required).
Inactivating or deleting Group records
- Toggle off the List Item is Active option to prevent it from being used in the future.
- Group records that are inactivated will not appear in the dropdown controls.
- When a Group record is inactivated, any assignments that rely on the group record will show the list abbreviation will remain active so the plan reviews can be completed.
- New assignments may not be created for inactive or deleted group records.
- Inactivated group records can be restored at anytime by toggling the 'Is Active' setting to On.
- Deleting a Group record will have the same result as inactivated records, however should it be necessary, deleted records cannot be restored without assistance from e-PlanSoft.
Best Practices
Be sure to update dependent Assignment Workflow Distributions after adding or inactivating Group records. See Workflow Distributions
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