VBrick Systems ETV v3.1 manual Resource Groups

Note The remaining options for User Groups (beginning with Add/Modify Live Channel Privileges) are the same as those described earlier for individual Users on page 51. The only difference is that the descriptions will apply to groups of users rather than to individual users.

Resource Groups

In the ETV Portal Server software, providing a user with Resources refers to providing them access to a particular functionality of the EtherneTV system. These include the ability to view Live Channels, to view VoD content, to publish content to the VoD, and to record content. A unique feature of the ETV Portal Server software is the ability to group Resources into Resource Groups. This allows the administrator to quickly and easily assign several resources at once to more than one Users or User Groups. This also makes the ongoing management of this content for these Users or User Groups much easier.

For example, if the organization has three User Groups—Marketing, Engineering, and Sales—they might create four resource groups. These Resource Groups would be Full Access, which are resources that everyone can see, and one Resource Group for each of the user groups. Full Access would be assigned to each user group, and the Marketing Resource Group would be assigned to the Marketing User Group, the Engineering Resource Group to the Engineering User Group, and the Sales Resource Group to the Sales User Group.

Resource Groups provide the added bonus that they allow the Administrator to quickly provide access to new content to Users and User Groups. For example, if the organization originally had ten Live Channels on the network, and another Live Channel was added, the Administrator would simply need to add that Channel to the appropriate Resource Groups and the channel would be available.

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