group

Contains group information, as stored in an external security provider or as defined in the Cognos namespace.

Groups represent collections of users or accounts that perform similar tasks. Accounts are specified in an external security provider with the exception of the Anonymous account, which is specified in the Cognos namespace.

You can create groups in the Cognos namespace and modify their properties.

If groups are created based on information in a security provider, IBM® Cognos® Analytics may constrain your ability to manipulate these objects. For example, you may not be able to change the value of a property, or the property may not return a value when queried.

The name of an instance may match the name of a sibling. In this case, a different search strategy must be used to distinguish between objects having the same name.

We recommend that you represent instances of this type as leaf nodes in a tree structure. These objects can be manipulated independent of their containing object.

This class

References

Used by the following properties:

Container Information

Contained by instances of the following classes

Properties

This class has the following properties.

distributionMembers

Refers to the members of this group for the purposes of distribution.

This property

New in Version 8.3 — New Properties for Group and Role Classes

This property was added.

governors

Contains the set of governors for this object.

This property

  • is an array of type bibus » governor

    is encoded as type tns:governorArrayProp

members

Refers to the members of this group .

This property

New in Version 8.3 — New Properties for Group and Role Classes

This property was extended to allow instances of the bibus » distributionList class to be referenced by instances of this property.

options

Contains the set of options for this object.

Options can also be specified in other locations. For more information, see Specifying Options and Parameters.

This property

  • is an array of type bibus » option

    is encoded as type tns:optionArrayProp

routingHints

Specifies the routing hints for this object.

This property

  • is an array of type string

    is encoded as type tns:stringArrayProp

  • can be acquired from a containing object

New in Version 8.3 — Package Hierarchies

This property can now be acquired.

securityMembers

Refers to the members of this group for the purposes of security.

This property

  • is an array of type bibus » baseClass

    has items that must be of class bibus » account or bibus » group

    is encoded as type tns:baseClassArrayProp

  • is read-only

  • refers to other objects in the content store using an id-based search path

New in Version 8.3 — New Properties for Group and Role Classes

This property was added.