Managing Members Groups

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1. What Is This For?
2. Creating A Group
3. Editing A Group
4. Deleting A Group

1. What Is This For?

Several features in Conversant are accessible only to site Administrators, and some are accessible also to Editors.

For example, only a site Admin can create a new directory in a site, or can edit/delete someone else's message.

On the other hand, an Editor can set the label of a DG message, can edit/delete any event in a Calendar, or can add a new item into a Weblog.

If you need several Editors in your conversation, you'll have to create a group of members for them.

For example, you could create a group called "Editors" which would contain thirty members, and set this group as owner of a Weblog. Then, these thirty people would be allowed to create new Weblog items in this Weblog.

You could even have 10 different groups of Editors, one for each Weblog in your site, one for each Calendar, and so on.

2. Creating A Group

That's quite easy:

1. Go to: "/yourSite/admin/groups"
2. In the "Group Name" field of the Create New Group form, enter the name of the group.
3. Select in the list box the members to include in this group.
4. Click on Add New Group.

That's it. The page will reload, showing you the new group in the "Edit Existing Groups" form.

3. Editing A Group

You can rename an existing group, or manage its members.

To rename a group:

1. Go to: "/yourSite/admin/groups"
2. Enter the new name in the text field of the Edit Existing Group form
3. Click on Rename [groupName]

To manage the members of a group:

1. Go to: "/yourSite/admin/groups"
2. locate the group in the Edit Existing Groups form, and click on its name
   (this will display the Edit Group: [groupName] form which has two parts, Available Members and Current Members)
3. To add one or several new members to the group, select their username in the Available Members list box, and click on Add Members.
4. To remove one or several members from the group, select their username in the Current Members list box, and click on Remove Members.

Note that You may also delete this whole group by clicking on Delete Group.

4. Deleting A Group

To delete a whole group, go to the Groups page of the Admins area of your site:

/yourSite/admin/groups

Locate the group to delete in the Edit Existing Groups form, and check the checkbox in the Mark For Deletion column. Then Click on Delete Marked Groups.

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