Customizable groups are only available to Enterprise-level customers. Plus-level customers can set up and organize users into three pre-defined group types: departments, employee types, and locations.
You can set up customizable types of groups to organize employees and projects – locations, divisions, service centers(1), and cost centers. Groups are primarily used to limit access to users and projects.
You can rename these four customizable groups, if necessary, to better reflect your company’s organizational structure.
The customizable group types may be disabled by default. You can enable any ones you plan to use.
We’re updating our departments and employee types to act as groups, so you may be able to assign an effective date when assigning these to users, and filter access to Replicon users based on department or employee type assigned.
For each group type, you can create a flat set of groups or a hierarchy of groups, up to seven levels deep. For example, for the location group type, you could create groups named Europe, North America, Asia, and then include sub-groups under each.
Users are assigned to groups in their user profiles. Projects are assigned to groups using the Project Info dialog for each project.
Each user or project can only be assigned one option for each type of group. For example, each user can be assigned only one location.
When you assign a group to a user, you specify an effective date (the initial date is set by default). This allows you to keep a historical record of each user's assignments, and keep track of whose in each group when carrying out things like payroll.
Once employees and projects are organized into groups, you can control which groups a user has access to. Currently, you can limit access for the following roles:
You can also limit data for the User role by group; However, in that case, setting up limits does not allow the user to access other users' items, but instead limits which users they can send scheduled reports to, share reports with, or assign as a substitute.
Refer to Limiting which groups a user can access for more information.
Payroll managers and administrators can also filter data by user group. Project managers can filter by group when creating project teams.
Project managers can assign entire groups to projects.
To create a user group:
To add a sub-group to a group:
icon in that row.Once you’ve set up all of your groups, you can assign groups to users in their user profiles.
Occasionally, you might need to move a group within its group hierarchy – say, for example, if your company is reorganizing. To move a group:
icon located next to it.The group, and all child groups under it, will move to the new parent, and any references to that group structure (e.g. in columns and filters) will automatically update.
You can't move a group to a lower position in its own hierarchy.
If you move a group to a parent group that a user doesn't have access to, they may or may not retain access. Refer to the If we move a group, will managers allowed access to that group still have access? FAQ below for more information.
You can update the name of any group type to match your organization’s usage. The name you choose will display in place of the default group type name throughout the application.
To give a group type a custom name:
You can disable group types that you are not actively using. Once a group is disabled, filters and data visibility limitations based on that group will no longer apply.
To enable or disable a group type:
Yes. To do this, click the 
icon for the top level of the branch you want to disable, select Disabled from the Status field, and click Save. The top level branch and all of the ‘child’ groups under it will be disabled.
Users typically can’t filter by a custom field, custom fields cannot have a hierarchical structure, and you can’t control user data visibility based on a custom field assignment. Additionally, you can't keep a historical record of a user's custom field assignments.
You could create departments as a sub-group within the locations group type, and disable the existing departments. Or, you could treat departments and locations as independent group types.
Make sure the group type is enabled. If the group type is disabled, it won't be shown in user profiles and won't be available for filtering.
No, you can only disable groups you’re not using. Disabled groups are still shown on the Administration landing page (in gray) but are not shown throughout the rest of the application.
Check that the Show Disabled Group Type check box located at the top, right-hand corner of the Administration > <Group type name> page is enabled.
If a group is moved to a parent group that the user doesn't have access to, they'll only retain access if the check box was selected for the moved group. For example, if the Documentation group is moved from R&D to Product Management, and its check box is enabled for a user, that user will retain access even if Product Management isn't checked.
If Product Management is checked, the user will have access whether or not Documentation was checked.
And, if Documentation is unchecked, and the user only had access to it because R&D was checked, they'll lose access to Documentation if it's moved to an unchecked parent group:
(1) The service center group type isn't available to Replicon for ADP Workforce Now users, since that group type is used for housing Customer Codes.