Portal Server Community Roles

Portal Server enables end users to set up and participate in online communities, which are associations of members and services. Communities provide services and content on a long-term basis or a short-term basis. Three end-user roles are defined:

• Owner - The community member who starts and removes a community. A community owner can perform the following tasks:

  • Delete members

  • Transfer community ownership to another member

  • Delete the community

  • Use member privileges

• Member - An end user who belongs to a community and interacts with a community's services and content. A community member has the following privileges:

  • View general information about the community

  • View members who subscribe to the community

  • Participate in community activities

• Visitor - An end user (and nonmember) who views a community's services but who does not interact with the services.