Mutually Exclusive Group Set

Mutually exclusive groups are sets of user groups where membership in one group prevents membership in another to avoid conflicts, redundancy, or unintended privilege escalation.

In the context of Hire2Retire, mutually exclusive groups ensure that when an employee is assigned a new group that conflicts with an existing one, the system automatically resolves the conflict based on predefined rules. This prevents duplicate privileges, avoids unnecessary licensing costs, and ensures that only the correct group remains assigned.

Note- This is an optional step, and is present on Group Membership step. You can skip this step if you do not want to add any group set by clicking on the Save & Next button.

Figure 1. Mutually Exclusive Group set assginment

How to create a Mutually Exclusive Group set?

When you are on Group Membership step you will see a section under the heading Add Mutually Exclusive Group Set. This section represents a rule based on which groups can be assigned into a set.

Following are the steps to create a group set:

1. Enter a Group Set Name:

   • Type a name that clearly describes the purpose of the group set (e.g., "Office 365 License Groups").
   Figure 2. Group Set Name
   
   

2. Select a Conflict Resolution Method (Dropdown Selection):

   • Higher Priority → The group with the highest priority remains.
   • Lower Priority → The group with the lowest priority remains.
   • Do Not Change → If there is a conflict it does not make any change. It neither adds any group nor remove.

   

   Figure 3. Conflict Resolution

3. Add Groups to the Set:

   • Select group you want to add in the Group Name cell. A dropdown will open containing all the groups.

   

   Figure 3. Select Groups
   • Also assign the Priority to each group.

   

   Figure 4. Assign Priority
   • You can also sort the groups in ascending and descending order based on Priority.
   Figure 5. Sorting

Creating multiple group set

You can add or delete more rules with different priorities using the Add a mutual exclusive group set or delete button respectively.

Note- If a group is defined in one set, the same group will not be available to define under other sets or within itself also.

Figure 6. Add Group sets