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6 years ago

When people typically handle entity security, do you nest the parents security group in its children security group?

Originally posted by Andrea Tout

8/22/2019

Hey! When people typically handle entity security, do you nest the parents security group in its children security group? So when you have access to a higher level parent, you just add them to that parents group, instead of adding the user to like 100 groups. I have always wondered what is better! I feel like it depends on the size of the client

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    Originally posted by Joakim Kulan

    I think it mostly depends on sheer number of users and howmany different types of access. I have always preferred to divide security up in Role groups, then individual entity/wf access then two of everything to handle read and write