--- title: Group of Employees slug: citsmart-8-en/group-of-employees description: Learn about the concept of groups and their various applications, such as security management and automated notification scheduling, in this comprehensive document. Discover how to register a group effectively and understand the significance of pre-regist docTags: createdAt: 2022-01-24T17:48:29.000Z --- A group is a set of one or more employees with the same objectives related to their functions. The two most common usages for groups are: 1. Security/secrecy management of access to various types of registries (e.g.: knowledge base folders, service portfolios, etc.). 2. Automatic notification scheduling based on some specific event/situation; This feature registers the groups and links with users, profiles, contracts, and notification e-mails. This feature provides a variety of actions, such as including, changing, and deleting a group. ## Before getting started - [x] To register a group, it is necessary to previously register the employee profile access. ## Procedure 1. Access the functionality through the main menu `Access and Permission > Group`; 2. Click on "**New**"; 3. Define the necessary configurations; 4. Click on "**Save**". :::hint{type="success"} ✅ **Rule****: **The group exclusion depends on there being no portfolios, employees and contracts linked to it. :::