Search for Groups

Use this window to search for a list of groups that match your search criteria. You can perform additional tasks, such as view more information about a group, change information about a group, add a new group, delete groups, or duplicate the group assignments of a group for other groups. You can also customize how the information is displayed in the table, and you can create and save customized search filters.

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.
Search by
Select one of the attributes by which you want to search. The default value is Group name.
Search for
Type a value that you want to search for, or use the wildcard character (*). The default value is * (all). Whether the search is case sensitive depends on the user registry that is being used. For example, you might type these values if searching by group name:
  • To search for all group names, type *.
  • To search for group names that begin with the letters ibm, type ibm*.
  • To search for group names that end with the letters ibm, type *ibm.
  • To search for group names that begin with the letters ib and ending with the letter m, type ib*m.
Maximum results
Type the maximum number of search results that you want to be displayed. If you type a number that is higher than the default value, performance will be affected. The default value is 100.

Click Search to find and display a list of one or more existing groups that match your search criteria.

Click Create to create a new group. If the user registry is in read-only mode, this button will not be displayed.

After the search completes, the results are displayed in a table that contains these columns:
Select
Select one or more check boxes in this column to select the groups that you want to delete or duplicate group assignments for. If the user registry is in read-only mode, this column will not be displayed.
Group name
Lists the group names that met the search criteria, sorted in ascending order. Click on the group name link to view or change information about the group you select. Note that if the names contain numbers, the order may not be ascending.
Description
Specifies the description of the group that is used to distinguish the group from other groups.
Unique Name
Lists the unique identifier for the group name. If the group name contains a special character (namely, "#", "," , "+", """, "\", "<", ">" or ";"), the unique name that is listed will show an escape sequence consisting of a backslash (\) preceding the special character. For example, if the group name is Group#1, the unique name will show cn=Group\#1,o=default.

If the table displays multiple pages, scroll to the bottom of the list, and click the right arrow to go to the next page. Or, type a page number, and then click Go.

Select one or more check boxes, and then click Delete to delete the selected groups from the user registry. At least one group must be displayed in the list to be able to click this button. If the user registry is in read-only mode, this button will not be displayed.

Select one or more check boxes, and then choose the Duplicate Group Assignments action to search for one group whose group assignments you want to assign to the selected groups. If the user registry is in read-only mode, this action will not be displayed.

Click this select all icon to select all groups listed. You can then clear (deselect) only those groups that you do not want to select.

Click this deselect all icon to clear all check boxes.

Note that if you support multiple repositories where some are read-only and some are read-write, then certain update options will be displayed even though you may not be able to perform the action. If you attempt to update an object that is in a read-only repository, you will receive an error message.

Click this  view options icon to show the table options for the list of groups. You can change the number of entries that are displayed on a page in the table or you can show additional columns of information. By default, 15 entries are displayed on each page of the table. To change the number of entries that are displayed on a page in the table, type the number of entries that you want to view in the Entries per page field and click Apply. By default, all of the columns display in the table. You can choose to display only certain columns. To remove columns that you do not want to display in the table, clear the check boxes for the desired column names and click Apply. If there are no groups in the list, this icon will not be displayed.

Click this icon or Close to hide the table options. If you made any option changes, they will be maintained.

Click this  filter icon to create search filters. Each filter provides a list of entries that contain the specified characters (such as ibm). If no filters are defined for a column, a [No filter] link will be displayed. To create a new filter, click the [No filter] link, type the text that you want to locate, select a filter type, and click OK. You cannot use wildcard characters and the text that you search for is case sensitive. If there are no groups in the list, this icon will not be displayed.

Click this icon to hide the filter names from being displayed.