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These web services allows a customer application to perform various user management functions on the OLSA environment. These include the following capabilities:
A user can be a member of multiple user groups. A user group can contain users and sub-groups. A user group can be a member of only a single parent user group.
Registering users and defining user groups may be necessary to properly establish catalog and collection assignments. Assignment can scope the contents of Search & Learn results for individual users. Assignment can also be used to properly meet any SkillSoft content licensing agreements, Referenceware in particular.
There are also some functions defined in the OLSA Web Services that support automatic user registration. This capability automatically creates a user, from provided user credentials, if the user does not yet exist in the OLSA environment. If this is not sufficient to meet your needs then the User Management service provide additional capabilities.