Groups | Epanicbutton

# Creating Groups

Groups define the selection of Message. If a device is in Group A, it has the Group A Messages.

Groups do not determine receivers, a Message can go to any receiver, regardless of the group.

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## Purpose of Groups

- When you want to provide a different set of Messages to different groups of people. This may be for geographic reasons; messages may be sent from a particular office or location. It may also be role based such as Message only sent by administrators.

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## Default Group

1. In the groups tab, you can select 1 and only 1, group to be the default group.
2. All newly created users go into default group.

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## Creating a New Group

1. In the **Groups** tab, click **Add new Group** button
2. Enter a **Group Name** (e.g., "Admin", "Clinical Staff", etc.)
3. The Default check box makes this group the default group that any new devices are added to the account. It can be changed so that a different group can be selected when installing that batch of devices.
. Click **Submit**

4. The group is created. Now add members to it.

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## Adding Users to a Group

1. Click the people icon under Members
2. The current members are listed on the left.
3. On the right, available users that are different groups can be selected and added to the current group.

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## Tips

- A device can only belong to one group. The group determines its buttons.
- Groups has nothing to do with receivers. You can send to any receiver from any button, regardless of group.

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