Working with Groups

Groups and Group Membership roles are the key collaboration principles within XPRESSO and implicitly defines the permission settings of each Member in a Group which in turn defines what actions they can perform and which GUI elements you can see on the XPRESSO dashboard. You need to be assigned to a Group and assigned a Membership role within that Group in order to complete any XPRESSO actions.

The following sub-topics covers all Group-and-Group Member related tasks and information.

• Group Members/Membership: This topic provides the Group-related information and tasks which are relevant to all Group Membership roles.

• Group Administration: Group Administrators are responsible for the upkeep of their Groups to ensure smooth day-to-day operations, the resources needed by Group members are in a sane/usable state, and to make sure the Group preferences and Group permissions (permitted actions) are configured appropriately so they meet the operational requirements for the Group.

• Group Permissions: Group Permissions provide the necessary background security protection for Group Members, gives the Group Administrators the ability to control which actions each Membership role can perform and which GUI elements each Membership role sees on the XPRESSO dashboard. You can view your current permissions to determine which XPRESSO actions your Membership role can perform within a Group.

• Group Preferences: Are the pre-filled system default settings (values) that are configured by the Group Administrator to help simplify and expedite the creation of configuration forms in XPRESSO. All Member roles can view their Group Preferences in case they want to determine what the default values are. The following Group Preference types are supported:

  • Workflow Preferences: Contains all preferences related to the configuration of Job Runs and Job Profile settings and testbed and execution settings.

  • Environment Preferences: Contains all preferences related to the configuration of the test environment/framework used to support the creation of new test suites, the execution environment, and supported platforms.

  • Docker Image Preferences: Contains all preferences related to the configuration of Docker Images such as the Pip Config Index URL and trusted host name, and the Python version used.

  • Reservation Preferences: Contains all preferences related to the configuration of Reservations such as the Reservation Priority, the minimum/maximum Reservation Duration, and the minimum Queue retention time.

  • Webhook Preferences: Contains all preferences related as to which state triggers the execution of a Webhook such as "Execute plugin in a Reserved State" vs. "Execute plugin in an Active State". Click on the plugin name to view the preference settings.

  • Notification Preferences: Contains all preferences related as to when Group Members are sent messages or notifications as a Reservation transitions through its various operational states such as Orchestrating, Queued, Reserved, and Active.