Changing information about a group

You can change the information about a specific group. You can change the name of the group, add a new description for the group if none exits, or change the existing description.

Note: If the federated repositories configuration has changed since the application server or deployment manager was started, you must restart the application server or deployment manager to ensure that changes to users and groups are saved to the current configuration.
  1. From the navigation pane, click Manage Groups.
  2. In the Search by field, select the attribute from the list that you want to use to search for one or more groups. For example, select Group name.
  3. In the Search for field, either type the string that you want to search for to limit the set of groups, or use the wildcard character (*) to search for all groups. Whether the search is case sensitive or case insensitive depends on the user registry that you are using.
  4. In the Maximum results field, specify the maximum number of search results that you want to display.
  5. Click Search. After the search completes, the groups that match your search criteria are displayed in the column as hypertext links.
  6. Click on one of the group links to change information about the group, as needed.
  7. Optional: In the Group name field, enter a different name for the group, if needed.
  8. Optional: In the Description field, enter a different description that the existing description, or enter a new description if none currently exists, if needed.
  9. To save the changes, either click OK to save and return to the previous window, or click Apply to save but remain on the same window.