So what is the difference between a group user and a group email account?
I mean what is the purpose of the âgroup userâ? I understand the concept of a âgroup email accountâ. As it is now I have trouble getting the "group email account displayed to the regular user - it only displays when the user it set to "system administratorâŚ
I donât think there are broken links in the documentation, if there are, we should fix them, itâs a community-editable site. I tried the link you gave and it worked.
Please list every broken link you find in the docs site so I can check.
About the Emails and group users, I found this in the SugarCRM docs, I think it still applies:
Group User
A Group User is a bucket that is used for assigning records to a non-specific user (e.g., Sales, Support) in the organization. Unlike a Regular or System Administrator user, a Group user does not have access to log in to Sugar. Due to this, they do not have the same profile settings available, including the option to set a password. Since Group users cannot log in to Sugar, they do not count against an organizationâs license count.
Examples of uses for a Group user would be to assign all new leads to a group user named âSalesâ or assign all newly-created support cases to âSupportâ before they are delegated to specific users (e.g., John Smith) in the organization.
Please note that Group users will not appear in the Employees module. For more information on how to create a Group user, please review the Group Users section of this page.
Hey @powerquest âgroup emailsâ and âgroup accountsâ are two different things. In general terms, a group email is a group MAILBOX that more than one user may have access to like âsales@âŚâ A group account is a completely different thing. Itâs like an actual user. A group account may contain more than one user. So for example lets say your group user is âsales teamâ and all your sales reps are part of it. Then letâs say when a webform creates a new lead, the lead would be assigned to âsales teamâ and basically, everyone in the the âsales teamâ would get an assignment notification. Another use case is like âsupport teamâ where new cases would be assigned to support team and everyone gets notified. In both cases youâd have a secondary step where someone would take ownership of the lead or the case afterwards.
Hi @pstevens and thanks for your reply.
I appreciate it a lot.
So a group user is like a âteamâ in the system?
I remember SugarCRM CE had teams I think but it does not exist in SuiteCRM as far as I know about it. (?)
I know about the âGroup Emailâ (I have set that up long time ago. But since it was only me in the company until now had yet to discover this issue), which is the one that is currently giving me the big headache.
Because it refuses to display on regular users - it only displays if the user has the âsystem administratorâ role. Not sure how to get around this issue.
A group email account allows more than one user to access a particular mail account. This can be useful for sales or support email accounts for example. In addition, group accounts are also used for sending email campaigns. See the Campaigns documentation for more information.
