15.2 Creating an Application Group

If you create a number of remote applications for your Novell Vibe site, you can create application groups for remote applications so they can all be assigned the same roles in the Access Control table. For example, you might have a group of remote applications that are allowed to perform administrative tasks and another group of remote applications that are granted only read access.

  1. Log in to the Vibe site as the Vibe administrator.

  2. Click the Settings icon in the upper right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon .

  3. Under Manage, click Application Groups.

    Manage Application Groups page

  4. Click Add a New Application Group.

    Add Remote Application Group page

  5. Fill in the following fields:

    Application Group Title: Specify a unique title for the remote application group. Vibe site users who need to set access controls for a remote application can select the title from the list of available remote application groups.

    Application Group Name: Specify a unique name for the remote application group. The name is for internal use in the Vibe database. The first character must be an alphabetic character (a-z, A-Z). For the rest of the name, you can use alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

    Application Group Description: Provide a description of the types of remote applications that the application group includes.

  6. Click Add to add the application group to the list of application groups that are available on your Vibe site, then select the new application group to add remote applications to it.

    Application Group Properties page

  7. Fill in the following fields:

    Applications: Start typing the title of a remote application, then select the remote application. Repeat for each application that you want to add to the application group.

    Application Groups: Start typing the title of an existing application group that you want to nest in the new application group, then select the application group. Repeat for each application group that you want to nest in the application group.

  8. Click Apply to save the application group, then click Close.