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The function of Groups is to help categorize a users's working roles within your setup. While this sounds fairly similar to departments, there is a distinct difference between the two, not only in semantics but in functional purposes as well. The main differences between groups and departments are:

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  • A group represents a functional purpose. Thus, a user can belong to many groups but can only belong to one department.

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  • Groups are usually agnostic from an organizational structure viewpoint. Lets say, for instance, that an organization has 10 departments and each department has a secretary. In this case, Secretary would be a group in itself and the members of the Secretary group would all belong to different departments.

In short, use departments when you are trying to represent a user's placement within an organizational chart, and use groups to represent the various functions a user might carry out.

Figure 1: Setup Users - Setup Groups

To manage groups, go to Setup Users > Setup Groups. Note that each group created can be tied to a specific organization, although not necessarily so. As mentioned earlier, a user can belong to multiple groups and, unless restricted, a group can have members that span several organizations.