This is not correct, as the Laserfiche server is capable of storing user attributes without assigning any other information about the user. Furthermore, it can successfully answer queries for user attributes for users with no attributes or other information assigned (it will return an empty list of attributes, of course).

However, if the user didn't appear in the list, then there wouldn't be a way in the current administration UI to access those attributes.

The benefit I was hoping for was that by not adding each user I could import the column settings for the group and not have to do it for each user. But I'm gather it doesn't work that way because each user gets created eventually, with default settings?