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Resource Roles
Introducing Resource Roles
The Resource Roles Managers provides functionality and screens that let you manage resource roles
in your network—another kind of grouping. Groups are not the same as roles. Both are ways of
addressing collections of resources you have discovered. The optional Group Operations
capabilities let you act on groups of resources.
Resource roles also let you group pieces of equipment together. You can specify a role for selected
resources in the
General Panel of the Resource Editor, or by opening Resource Role Manager from
the navigation window.
Resource instances refer to roles, as opposed to the optional resource groups. You can filter
resources based upon a role but from the roles perspective you cannot see the list of resources.
Permissions may be set for roles automatically. On the other hand, resource groups refer to the
resources. From the resource group’s perspective you can see its member resources. Group
operations use the resource groups. Resource groups also allow for dynamic membership as well as
supported nested groups for easier management. Other than these somewhat subtle differences
groups and roles basically accomplish the same thing.
CAUTION:
Unless you create a filter and save it as described in Chapter 28, Filters, any filters you create
here are not preserved.
Select Resource Roles from the File -> Open -> Inventory menu or the Navigation Window to
display the Resource Role Manager.