User groups

Finance and Operations/AX User Forum
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Good afternoon

In Dynamics AX 2012 user groups are not commonly used and MS has removed the page where in older version you could view all the user groups that a user belongs to.

Is there any way which I’m not aware of that does that?

Thanks!

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Do you mean security groups? They’ve been replaced with the new role-based security.

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You can still see the User groups.

They are still used for a couple things:

  • General ledger journals can use user groups as a simple approval step.

  • Workflows can still see the user groups when selecting the workflow step assignment.

The User groups can be access in System administration->Common->Users:

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Thanks for the replies.

In general yes, the new role-based security should be used.

However, the old user groups are still there and are used for a few things.

We also used them in our solution.

And yes one can see the groups by under System administration > Common > User groups.

My question, was how to easily get the list of user groups that a specific user belongs to.

And obviously not by clicking on every single group and checking the users assigned to it!

Thanks.

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Ah, got it. You are correct that there is no longer a way to see what group is user is in.

The data is there, so it could likely be retrieved by a developer or by looking at the table.

The UserGroupList table is what has the listing of groups & users.

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Open user groups, press Ctrl+F3, add User group list data source and add a range for User group list table and User ID field.