Groups

Group	Description
Accounts Receivable Department	Used in ENOVIA Product Line Management. People who receive payment for sales orders and then promote sales orders to the Payment Received state.
Build Management	Used in ENOVIA Product Line Management. People responsible for managing Software Build objects.
CES_ADMIN	Administration group for Component Reuse.
CES_DESIGN_ADMIN	Design Administration group for Component Reuse.
Change Boards	Used in Engineering Central. This is the parent group of all the change board groups. Members of the change board are responsible for reviewing ECRs. At least one Change Board must exist -- the applications are designed around the assumption that there is generally more than one in a company. Product Lines contain a Change Board attribute, declaring which change board is responsible for it. All Change Boards must be child groups of this group.
Company Name	Deprecated. The functionality of the Company Name group has been replaced with the Company Name role. The name of this group has been changed to Company Name Old (the symbolic name remains group_CompanyName). Any existing code that uses this group should continue to work (as long as the code properly referred to the symbolic name and not the actual name).
Design Engineering	Used in ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. In Product Option Manager, Design Engineers are responsible for adding engineering-related rules for a configurable product, including engineering-related compatibility rules, inclusion rules, rule extensions, and resources. Design Engineers also create parts, generate the Generic BOM, and review and test the product structure.
Distribution Groups	Used in Engineering Central. Distribution Group is the parent group of all the Distribution Groups. Members of Distribution Groups are notified upon the release of an ECO and its related parts. At least one Distribution Group must be created for the process to work correctly.
Documentation	Used in ENOVIA Product Line Management and ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. Persons in charge of documenting the software.
Order Entry	Used in ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People responsible for validating product configurations (when the system does not validate automatically) and generating Precise BOMs for product configurations. Order Entry Clerks also may enter the order into the MRP system and enter the promised delivery date for a sales order, as assigned by the MRP system.
Product Management	Used in ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People responsible for adding features and options to configurable products, adding marketing-related compatibility rules, and reviewing and testing the product structure.
Production Support	Used in the ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People responsible for monitoring sales orders as they move through the manufacturing system.
Project Originators	Used in Program Central. Parent is Project Users.
Project Users	Used in Program Central. Parent of Project Originators.
Sample Change Board 1, 2, 3	Used in Engineering Central. Children of Change Boards.
Sample Distribution Group 1, 2, 3, 4	Used in Engineering Central. Children of Distribution Groups.
Shadow Agent sd	Hidden role used by all applications. The Shadow Agent group has ALL permissions. Programs push the context to a member of this group, the User Agent person, when the program requires access not granted to most users. For example, in order to ensure that Configurable Product objects are created using the Create Product wizard, and not the Object/New/Original dialogs, create access is only allowed by the Shadow Agent group.
Shipping Department	Used in ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People responsible for shipping ordered items to customers and promoting sales orders to the Shipped state.
Software Change Board	Used inENOVIA Product Line Management and ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People who assess and assign everything involved in the development of a software product, including specifications, incidents, features, impact analyses, etc. All Change Boards are part of this group, including the Change Control Board (CCB).
Software Engineering	Used in ENOVIA Product Line Management and ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People who write code for the software, perform impact analyses, and write functional specifications.
Software Quality Engineering	Used in Product Line component and ENOVIA Variant Configuration Centrall. People who are involved with the entire quality development process of the software.
Software Release Engineering	Used in ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central. People responsible for software components, software library, and the integrity of sequencing the configuration management environment. These people also create/oversee the development/test of runtime environments and support both the development and QA environment. They manage the release of new versions of software to customers. They build release and packing tools, and develop release policy in conjunction with Quality Assurance, Development and Program Management.