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# Add a group

You must have super privileges in P4 Server (`p4d`), or have admin privileges in `p4d` version 2012.1 or later, to create a group. If you do not have sufficient permissions, P4 Code Review does not display the Add Group button.

1. To view a list of groups, click Groups in the menu.

2. Click the + Add Group button.

   The Add Group Settings tab is displayed:

3. Provide a name for the group.
4. Optional: provide a description.

5. Optional: specify an owner. This field auto-suggests users within P4 Server as you type.

   Group owners are not members of their groups. A group owner can be added as a member of a group.

   Once specified, modifying the group's definition is restricted to group owners and users with super privileges in P4 Server.

   If you do not specify an owner, you must specify at least one member (below).

6. Optional: specify group members. This field auto-suggests projects, groups, and users within P4 Server as you type (up to a combined limit of 20 entries).

   If you specify a project, the project's members become members of the group. If you specify a group, that group becomes a sub-group of your new group, and all of its members (and members of any of its sub-groups) become members of your new group.

   If you do not specify any members, you must specify at least one owner (above).

7. Choose one the following options:

   - Click Save to finish adding the group. By default group members will be emailed when a new review is requested.

   The Save button is disabled if any required fields are empty.

   or

   - Optional: configure email notifications for the group in the Add Group, Notifications tab. See the next step for details.

8. Optional: click the Notifications tab to configure group email notifications.

9. Optional: add a group mailing list address by selecting Use mailing list instead of notifying by individual group member's emails (must add email address) and entering a valid group email address.

   - Group mailing list enabled: notifications are sent to the group email address.

     When a group mailing list is enabled it overrides the group member's preference set for the notify_self configurable in the `SWARM_ROOT/data/config.php` file. So even when the notify_self configurable is set to false the group member will receive an email notification.

     There is a caveat that if a user is a group member and the same user is added individually to the review and has set the notify_self configurable to true, the user receives two email notifications.

   - Group mailing list disabled: notifications are sent to the group members individual email addresses.

   The format of the email address is validated as you type.

10. Group members can be notified when a member of the group starts a review. Group members can be notified when a change is committed by, or on behalf of, a changelist owner who is also a member of this group. These settings are always available even if the group mailing list is not enabled.

    Select which actions send a notification to the group:

    - Email members when a review is requested: When any member of this group creates a review, this group will be notified.
    - Email members when a change is committed: When a change is committed into Perforce, if the owner of the changelist is a member of this group, this group will be notified.

    When a user commits a changelist in P4 Code Review, it is committed on behalf of the changelist owner. If the changelist owner is a member of this group, this group will be notified.

    Members of your group may receive notification emails even if group notifications are disabled as they may be members of a project, or follow a project or user, or P4 Code Review's review daemon functionality may be enabled. See Notifications for details.

11. Group notification settings allow you to configure which notifications are sent to the group mailing list when events occur within P4 Code Review (the group mailing list must be enabled). This allows you to limit the number of emails sent to the group mailing list. These settings apply across all projects.

    The following group notification settings are only available if the group mailing list address is configured.

    Defaults for these options are configured by the P4 Code Review administrator, and they may force some of these options to on or off. See Global settings for how this is configured.

    Toggle notifications for each event on or off to control whether the group receives an email when that event occurs.

    Clicking Reset to default resets the options back to system defaults.

12. Click Save.

    The Save button is disabled if any required fields are empty.

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