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My Groups

What this screen is for

My Groups lists the groups you belong to. Groups establish ownership — of components, systems and projects — and are how the catalog knows which team is responsible for what.

Groups are not how permissions are granted. That is roles, and confusing the two is the most common misunderstanding about access in Fenwave.

Before you start

To do this You need
See your groups signed in

You cannot add yourself to a group. Membership requires platform-settings.user.assign-group, which an administrator holds.

Opening it

  1. My Space › My Groups in the sidebar.

Direct URL: /my-groups

The interface

📸 Screenshot Placeholder: My Groups listing two groups. Mark: (1) a group entry, (2) what it owns.

# Control What it shows When you’d use it
1 Group entry A group you belong to Confirming membership
2 Owned entities What that group is responsible for Understanding your team’s surface

Walkthroughs

Confirm your membership

Open the page and read the list. If a team’s group is missing, you are not in it — which affects ownership and visibility, not what you are permitted to do.

See what your team owns

Follow a group through to what it owns, or use Architecture filtered by that owner for the same question as a picture.

Scenario

Joining a team and finding out what you have taken on.

  1. My Space › My Groups — confirm you are in the team’s group. If not, ask an administrator; they need platform-settings.user.assign-group, which is a different permission from editing groups, so the first person you ask may not be able to do it.
  2. Look at what the group owns.
  3. Open Architecture and filter by Owner set to your group. This is the fastest honest answer to “what am I now responsible for”, and it is often larger than the handover said.
  4. Check the Catalog for entries owned by your group with no documentation. Those are the ones that will page you at 3am with nothing to read.
  5. Note anything the team owns that nobody mentioned. Unowned or forgotten-but-owned components are exactly what a handover misses.

When it doesn’t work

Symptom Cause How to check Fix
You are in no groups Nobody has added you This page Ask an administrator with platform-settings.user.assign-group
You are in the group but still cannot do something Groups grant ownership, not permissions Access Explorer You need a role
A group owns nothing No systems have it as owner Projects An administrator sets owners on systems
Your team’s group does not exist It was never created Groups Ask an administrator to create it
Membership changed but nothing looks different Session cache — Reload the page

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