Looking at Airavata Data model, there is project which is equivalent to User 
group. A project can have multiple user for a gateway and a gateway can have 
multiple projects.

Thanks
Raminder
On Jan 31, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Saminda Wijeratne <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Miller, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> As an end user, I think even with just a single tool, the argument for a 
> group is there.
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> As Saminda suggested, one may wish to have a join area to work in with a 
> group, and individual work you aren’t ready to share, even with just a single 
> tool.
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> Because a Gateway is wide open, it is easy to imagine a case where there are 
> several groups, each with (potentially overlapping) users, who all are 
> working with Amber for different projects..
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> Agreed. I totally forgot about shared projects scenario. Thanks for pointing 
> it out Mark.  
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> Mark
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> From: Saminda Wijeratne [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 9:11 AM
> To: dev
> Subject: Re: Users and UserGroups in Science Gateways
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> I'm not an expert on the Amber usecase, but I suppose it is possible to have 
> multiple user groups for a single usecase. It could be to have a shared space 
> of data hidden from each user group. It could be to author 
> access/privilledges to the portal or resources depending on the user group.
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> I would assume the mapping of user to usergroups would be many to one 
> mapping. Unlike user roles I don't think it is sensible to have users being 
> mapped to multiple groups (there is a whole area of security to consider 
> here).
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> (I do have to note that usergroup IMO is not a must concept for a science 
> gateway)
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Sachith Withana <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Can someone explain to me the mapping of users to groups in a Science 
> Gateway? ( This is regarding the Amber usecase).
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> Can there be multiple user groups in a gateway portal when it comes to just 
> one usecase?
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> ex: If we have only one usecase for the portal ( such as Amber)
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> Thanks,
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> Sachith Withana
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