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CSTAR is the access and role management application used with Group Forms and other connected services.
CSTAR (Connected Services Team Access and Roles) provides a centralized way to:
- create and manage tenants
- manage tenant membership
- organize users into groups
- assign and maintain role-based access
For more details on CSTAR, see the CSTAR documentation.
A tenant represents a program area, initiative, or service team. In Group Forms, forms are scoped to the tenant context instead of an individual-only context.
Groups are collections of users inside a tenant. They make role assignment repeatable and easier to maintain.
Roles determine what actions a user can perform. Roles are applied through groups and reflect service responsibilities.
Tenants are created in CSTAR. IDIR user can request a new tenant by clicking Request New Tenant on the CSTAR Tenants dashboard. The request requires a tenant name, a ministry or organization, and a description. Once submitted, the request goes to an operations admin for approval.
Group Forms must be added as a connected service to a tenant in CSTAR before roles can be assigned. To do this, navigate to the Connected Services page from the left-hand navigation menu in CSTAR. Once Group Forms is connected, its roles become available for assignment to groups within that tenant.
Once a tenant is approved and active, the tenant owner can add users to the tenant and create groups. Groups are used to organize users and assign service roles from Group Forms. Users added to a group inherit all roles assigned to that group.
Roles are assigned to groups from the Service Roles page. Select Service Roles from the left-hand navigation menu in CSTAR. The Tenant Owner or User Admin clicks Edit, selects the desired roles from the Group Forms connected service, and saves. All members of that group will then have those roles when accessing Group Forms under the tenant.
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