This topic is under construction for the 25.7 (July 2025) release. For the previous documentation of this feature, click here.
Security groups make managing LabKey's role based permissions easier by letting administrators assign access to a named group rather than needing to manage the permissions of each individual user. Group membership may evolve over time as personnel arrive and leave the groups.
There are three main types of security groups available:
- Site Groups: Groups defined at the site level. Roles can be assigned anywhere on the site for these groups.
- Built-in site-wide groups "Site Users" (those logged into an account) and "Guests" (those who are not logged in).
- Project Groups: Groups defined only in a particular project; they can be assigned roles in that project and folders within it.
Any individual user can belong to any number of site and project groups. Permissions are additive, meaning the user has the superset of all permissions assigned to all groups they are in.
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