When you create a group, you configure the identifying information for the group and specify the group type.
Steps for creating a group
To create a group, you configure settings on the following tabs:
Details tab
1. On the menu bar, click Groups and then click the Add icon on the Groups ribbon. The Add group dialog opens. The Base new group on what existing group? field lists all available groups for the current site.
2. In the Base new group on what existing group? field, select a group.
3. Press OK.
4. On the Group Details page, in the Details tab, in the Group name field, enter the name you want to assign to the group. The name is required. You must choose a unique name and Nuance recommends that you choose one that is immediately recognizable.
5. In the Sites field, associate the group with a site.
6. In the Role field, chose a role for the members of the group.
7. In the Privileges section, select the privileges for the group.
Grants tab
You can only configure grants for a group if you are using the NMC Administrator role.
The Grants tab is where you view and control what an group members can create, view, edit, or delete. The Grants tab is also where you view and control the users, groups, and sites that group members can perform actions on.
The following are some examples of grants:
l Create Site: Allow an administrator to create a site in an organization.
l View Site: Allow an administrator to view the sites in an organization.
l Modify Site: Allow an administrator to modify the sites in an organization.
l Delete Site: Allow an administrator to delete the sites in an organization.
To add a grant to a group:
1. In the Group Details screen, click the Grants tab.
2. Click Add.
3. On the Add Group Grant screen, in the Object Type area, select the object that the grant applies to:
l Organization
l Site
l Group
l Global
4. In the Grants area, select one or more grants. To select multiple grants, hold down the Ctrl key and select more than one grant. The grants you can select depend on the object you select in the Object Type area.
5. In the Object area, select one or more organizations, sites, or groups. Again, the type of object you can select depends on the object you select in the Object Type area. For example, if you select "Group" in the Object Type area, the Object area displays all the groups that you can apply grants to.
6. Click Add.
To delete a grant
1. In the Group Details screen, click the Grants tab.
2. In the Grants area, select a grant.
3. In the Delete column, click the red x.
Dragon Professional tab
1. Configure the Administrative settings:
l Disable the use of Advanced scripting commands:
Prevents group members from accessing Dragon Group 's Advanced scripting tools.
Chapter 4: Configuring groups and user accounts
l Create BM-IV profiles by default (recommended for virtualized environment):
Selecting the Create BM-IV profiles by default (recommended for virtualized envir-onment) option makes all users in a site use BestMatch IV acoustic models when they create a profile.
2. Configure the voice Commands that you want to be available to the members of this group. For more information, see Setting Dragon Group voice command options for user groups on page 92
3. Configure the Auto Formatting settings for the group to select the way that certain words spoken by any member of the group should be formatted. See Setting Auto-Formatting Dragon Group options on page 75
Saving a group
After you have finished entering all the information necessary to define the group:
1. Click Save to save your settings and complete the configuration of the group.
2. You can later return to the group at any time to modify any settings, change sites the group belongs to, or add and remove user accounts from the group.
Steps for viewing or modifying a group
Details tab
1. In the Nuance Management Console, search for a group.
2. On the Groups screen, double-click a group or select a group and click Details.
3. On the Group Details screen, click the Details tab.
4. View or modify the following fields:
Group name - The name for the group. The name is required and must be a unique name.
Organization - The name of the organization. Nuance creates this name when it creates your organization.
Sites - The site that the group is associated with.
Role - The role for the members of the group.
Privileges - The privileges that are assigned to an administrator group. For details, see Setting Privileges for groups.
Members tab
On the Members tab under Group Details, you can:
n Select individual user accounts to make those users members of the group. You can assign users to more than one group.
To add or remove users from a group
If a user is a member of only one group, you cannot delete the user from that group, because a user must belong to at least one group.
1. On the Group Details screen, click the Members tab.
2. A list of current group members (users) is displayed. The list of available users is con-strained to users created manually or users that logged into Dragon and were assigned to the group
3. In the list of Group members, click on and highlight a user account, then click the Add/Remove button below the list.
4. In the Group membership window:
1. To add someone to a group, in the Member column, check the check-box beside their name.
2. To remove someone from a group, in the Member column, un-check the check-box beside their name.
5. Click Save.
Chapter 4: Configuring groups and user accounts
Security tab
On the Security tab under Group Details, you can view the permissions that control the actions (create, view, edit, delete) that members of a group can perform on specific objects (sites, groups, and users).
To add a permission to a group
1. On the Group Details screen, click the Security tab.
2. Click Add.
3. In the Add Group Permission dialog-box, under Grants, select one or more grants.
To select multiple grants, press down the Ctrl key and select more than one grant.
4. In the Groups area, apply the grant(s) to one or more groups.
5. Click Add.
Grants tab
You can only configure grants for a group if you are using the NMC Administrator role. The Grants tab is where you view and control what an group members can create, view, edit, or delete. The Grants tab is also where you view and control the users, groups, and sites that group members can perform actions on.
The following are some examples of grants:
l Create Site: Allow an administrator to create a site in an organization.
l View Site: Allow an administrator to view the sites in an organization.
l Modify Site: Allow an administrator to modify the sites in an organization.
l Delete Site: Allow an administrator to delete the sites in an organization.
To add a grant to a group:
1. In the Group Details screen, click the Grants tab.
2. Click Add.
3. On the Add Group Grant screen, in the Object Type area, select the object that the grant applies to:
l Organization
l Site
l Group
l Global
4. In the Grants area, select one or more grants. To select multiple grants, hold down the Ctrl key and select more than one grant. The grants you can select depend on the object you select in the Object Type area.
5. In the Object area, select one or more organizations, sites, or groups. Again, the type of object you can select depends on the object you select in the Object Type area. For example, if you select "Group" in the Object Type area, the Object area displays all
the groups that you can apply grants to.
6. Click Add.
To delete a grant
1. In the Group Details screen, click the Grants tab.
2. In the Grants area, select a grant.
3. In the Delete column, click the red x.
Dragon Professional tab
1. View and configure the Administrative settings:
l Disable the use of Advanced scripting commands:
Prevents group members from accessing Dragon Group 's Advanced scripting tools.
l Create BM-IV profiles by default (recommended for virtualized environment):
Selecting the Create BM-IV profiles by default (recommended for virtualized envir-onment) option makes all users in a site use BestMatch IV acoustic models when they create a profile.
2. View and configure the voice Commands that you want to be available to the members of this group. For more information, see Setting Dragon Group voice command options for user groups on page 92
3. View and configure the Auto Formatting settings for the group to select the way that certain words spoken by any member of the group should be formatted. This includes general and other settings that you want rendered consistently in documents generated by the group. See Setting Auto-Formatting Dragon Group options on page 75