Is it possible to assign a group to another group? (rather than individual users)

[AlejandroMari1]

Hello! Is it possible to assign a group to another group in Portal? Has this been considered if not?

The use case is as follows:

I have different groups of people (like Engineering, Accounting, etc.). I'd like to have one Portal group for each of these group of people.

I also have different apps, so I would like to have different Portal groups to grant access to these apps (App 1 Group, App 2 Group, etc.)

It would be great if I could assign the groups of people directly to the app group. This will make assigning permissions to apps and adding new members considerably more straightforward.

Note: I don't want to assign the members of one group to another (this is already possible), but the group itself. So if I add a new member to the people's group then those automatically have access.

Thanks!

Alejandro

[ReeseFacendini]

I may not be understanding exactly what you are asking, but I am going to give it a go!  If you want to share App 1 with groups A-C and then share App 2 with groups C-F you can do that currently by sharing the application to multiple groups.  This way only the people in their respective groups would have access to the specific application.

[AlejandroMari1]

Thanks for your reply! What you suggest works, the problem is that my apps contain multiple Portal Items (each app has multiple Web Maps and Web Scenes). So not only I need to share each app item with the groups, but all these other items that are part of the app as well.

If I could assign a group to another group, then I could:

- Share all the app components with a single group (Say App 1 Group)

- Make the Engineering group a member of "App 1 Group".

This way I don't need to share each of the app's components with the Engineering group (or other people's groups).

This is similar to Active Directory, where you can assign a group as a member of another group.

[ReeseFacendini]

Ah I did miss something, but I completely understand now!  Currently, no it's not possible to have groups within groups, but I do sympathize with you on having to share every item again and again not being a good workflow.  If you haven't already, I would suggest that in the ArcGIS Enterprise Ideas

[AlejandroMari1]

Thank you! I will post it to ideas then!

[AlejandroMari1]

It's on the ideas now: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/allow-assigning-a-group-to-another-group-for-a...