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The concept of the scope hierarchy is flexible and its implementation is optional, because you can just create a single level with all scopes under the global scope. Also an enterprise can belong to more than one scope, which means that an administrator could create an enterprise hierarchy and then another scope for sharing templates of a specific type only with a group of tenants that will use that template.
What types of scopes are there?
An unlimited scope is the Global scope or a Use all enterprises or Use all datacenters scope.
A limited scope is any scope that is not a global scope.
In previous versions, the documentation referred to greater and lesser scopes.
How do I create a scope hierarchy?
An administrator with scope permissions and the “Allow user to switch enterprises” privilege can create a hierarchy by assigning a parent scope to any scope except an unlimited scope. (An unlimited scope is the Global scope or a Use all enterprises or Use all datacenters scope.
What happens when I create an enterprise?
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