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Permission Groups and Context Groups

"Permission groups" and "context groups" are terms that are applied to the same entities: custom groups. Permission groups are created to organize managed items for purposes of data access allocation. They are assigned to user accounts as permission sets. When permission groups are applied as filters to determine the data context for views and dashboard pages, they are named context groups.

Applying custom groups as permissions enables:

• Users to view data specifically within their area of responsibility, such as a physical location
• Administrators to restrict the users who can view data for security reasons

Users can also use the section of the Groups tree below their permission groups to change the data context for summary or group dashboards.

The groups that are assigned to your user account determine the data that you see in dashboards. The group that serves as a filter for the current dashboard is the group context for that dashboard. When you first log in to CA Performance Center, the pages that you see reflect the context of your default permission group.

You can change the context of all views on a dashboard page by selecting another context group. For more information, see Change the Group Context.