Documentation for Crowd 1.4. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.

Groups are known as permission container objects. Groups are particularly important in Crowd, as they are often used to control access to applications. Note also that the 'crowd-administrators' group confers Crowd administration rights to its members.

This page tells you how to view the members of a group in Crowd. The list of group members may take a while to load, depending upon the size of your user base.

About nested groups

Some user directories allow you to define a group as a member of another group. Groups in such a structure are called 'nested groups'. In Crowd, you can map any group to an application, including a group which contains other groups. Currently, nested groups are supported for LDAP directory connectors only. You can enable or disable support for nested groups on each LDAP directory individually. For more information, refer to Configuring an LDAP Directory Connector.

For more details about nested groups, refer to Nested Groups in Crowd.


To view the members of a group,

  1. Log in to the Crowd Administration Console.

  2. Click the 'Groups' tab in the top navigation bar.

  3. The Group Browser will appear, as shown in screenshot 1 below. Select the directory in which you are interested, then click the 'Search' button to list all the groups that exist in that directory.
    You can refine your search by specifying a 'Name' (note that this is case-sensitive), or 'Active'/'Inactive' groups.

  4. Click the 'View' link to view a specific group's details.

  5. The 'View Group — Details' screen will appear. Click the 'Members' tab to view the immediate members of the group, as shown in screenshot 2 below.
    • If your user directory allows nested groups, users and other groups may be members of the selected group. The 'Members' tab shows all the immediate members of the group, including users and other groups.
    • If the group you are viewing does not contain other groups as members, the 'Members' tab will show only users.
  6. Click the 'All Users' tab (if present) to view all users who are included in the group and in its sub-groups, as shown in screenshot 3 below.
    • The 'All Users' tab will appear only if the group you are viewing contains sub-groups.
    • This tab shows users belonging to the group you are viewing, plus the users belonging to all its sub-groups.




Screenshot 1: Group Browser





Screenshot 2: Viewing Members of a Group




Screenshot 3: Viewing All Users in a Group



関連トピック

Using the Group Browser and Role Browser
Adding a Group or Role
Crowd Documentation

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