Setting Security on a Community
By default, a new community inherits the security of the
parent folder, but you can change this security.
- Open the Community Editor by creating a new community or
editing an existing community.
- Click the Security page.
- Specify which users and groups can access this community
and what type of access they have:
- To allow additional users or groups access to this community,
click
Add Users/Groups.
To specify whether this community is mandatory, select
an option in the Mandatory drop-down list:
By default communities are Not Mandatory.
- To force users or groups to be members of this community, select Mandatory.
- To force users or groups to be members of this community and add
a tab to the portal banner for this community, select Mandatory
with Tab.
Note: Users and groups for which this community is mandatory
will not be able to unsubscribe from this community, that is, this
community will always be available in their My Communities menu.
To specify
the type of access a user or group has, in the drop-down list under
the Privilege column, select the access type.
For a description of the available privileges, see About Access Privileges.
Note: If a user is a member of more than
one group included in the list, or if they are included as an individual
user and as part of a group, that user gets the highest access available
to her for this object. For example, if a user is part of the Everyone
group (which has Read access) and the Administrators Group (which
has Admin access), that user gets the higher privilege to the community:
Admin.
To delete
a user or group, select the user or group and click 
.
To select or clear all of
the user and group check boxes, select or clear the check box to the
left of Users/Groups.
- To see what
users are included in a group, click the group name.
To change the column
used for sorting or to toggle the sort order between ascending and
descending, click the column name.
You see an icon (
or 
) to the
right of the column name by which the objects are sorted.
If you chose Mandatory with Tab for any user or group,
in the Mandatory Tab Priority drop-down list,
set this community tab's priority.
The priority determines the
order in which tabs display in the portal banner: tabs with higher
priority display before tabs with lower priority.
