Group Policies

• Groups are available to schools, divisions, and collaborative groups on Campus.
• Groups are supported through delegated administration. 
• Projects within groups cannot be used for the storage of restricted data.
• Projects in groups do not have an expiration policy at this time.

New Group Requests

To request a group creation or to be added to a group, please email help@doit.wisc.edu. The Shared Tools team will contact you and to complete a needs analysis.

If requesting a new Group, please include the Group name along with the names and NetIDs of additional users to add.

Adding Users to Groups

In order to add a user to an existing GitLab group:

1. Ask the user to login into GitLab
2. After the user successfully logs in and has a user profile, go to the "Group Information > Members"
3. Click on "Invite Members"
4. Search for the existing GitLab member
5. Click "Invite"

Note: Shared Tools does not recommend inviting users by email address.