Users and Groups

Administrators

The community member who manages the community's administration duties and is often the individual who created the community. A community can have one or more administrator.

Community Administrators can access the Control Panel that allows them to specify and edit community preferences, manage community pages, and set community member permissions.

Community Administrators are also responsible for sending invitations to members to join the community.

Members

Invited guests who have registered and activated an account. Every member has a member profile and a myNetwork workspace.  A member can be assigned additional permissions by an administrator.

Members need to be signed in to view private communities and/or objects with restricted permissions.

Groups

An administrator may create additional groups as required by their community.  These groups may be used to set permissions to areas/documents on your site or you can use groups to re-assign administrative responsibility to other members.

The following provide are default groups that illustrate the the administrators' capability to distribut additional administrative responsibility by using permissions:

Calendar Manager: Share in managing the Events Calendar page and have full access to the Events Calendar administrative options, such as adding, deleting, and editing events.
Forums Manager: Share in managing the Forums page and have full access to the Forums administrative options, such as adding, deleting, and editing Forums, and removing unwanted posts.
Gallery Manager: Share in managing the Photo Gallery page and have full access to the Photo Gallery administrative options, such as adding, deleting, and editing albums and managing the images.
Membership Manager: Share in managing the Members page. Currently the Membership Manager only has control of managing the look and feel of the Members page.
Blogs Manager: Share in managing the Blogs page and have full access to the Blogs administrative options, such as adding new blogs, or deleting, and editing Blogs.