Groups
A group is a way to manage multiple users collectively in Redmine.
By using groups, you can add many users to a project at once by registering the entire group as project members.
Benefits of Using Groups
◾️Register project members by group
Instead of adding individual users as members of a project, you can register members by group.
When users are added to or removed from a group, all projects that include that group as a member are automatically updated to reflect the change.
This is especially useful in organizations with many users or frequent personnel changes.
◾️Assign issues to a group (multiple assignees)
You can also assign a group as the assignee of an issue.
This is convenient for tasks where the responsible team is known but the individual assignee has not yet been decided, or when multiple members are working on the same task simultaneously.
1. Open Administration → Settings, and go to the Issue tracking tab.
2. Turn Allow issue assignment to groups ON.
3. Click Save.
When an issue is assigned to a group, all members of that group can view it as if it were assigned directly to them.
Email notifications for issue creation and updates are also sent to all members of the assigned group.
Creating a Group
To create a group, log in as an administrator, then go to Administration → Groups and click New group in the upper right corner.
Enter a name for the group on the New group screen and click Create.
The group will be added to the list of registered groups.
Managing Group Members
To edit an existing group, open Administration → Groups. A list of registered groups will appear.
Click the name of a group to open its settings page, then go to the Users tab to view or modify the users that belong to the group.
To add users to a group:
Click New user, select the users you want to add using the checkboxes, and click Add.To remove users from a group:
Click Delete next to the user’s name.
