Community Builder

Features

Create Group via Group Manager

1. Login to your Website Control Panel and click on the Groups icon.
2. The first step you need to take is to create a Group Type. (Note: You will also need to create Schedules if you have not done so already. You will not be able to create a group unless you do this.)
3. Click on the tab titled "Group Types" and a dialog box will appear.
4. Enter the Group Type name and select the Save  icon in the upper right corner of the dialog box. The name we have used in the example to the right is "Department". For this purpose, you can just leave the 4 drop down menus set to "No". For further information regarding each menu's function, please visit the Groups manager section of the Online Help Manual. Close the dialog box.
5. Once you create your Group type, you will click the Add New Group icon to add a new group.
6. Enter the Group Name. In the example below, we are using "Technical Support" as the name of our group.
7. Enter a Time and Location. If these do not apply, enter N/A in each blank.
8. Select the appropriate Group Type for this group. In this example, "Department" is the Group Type that we need to select.
9. You can leave Meeting Schedule set at the default value selected.
    
   
 
10. Set the next 3 drop down menus to the appropriate security levels.
    • Content Access: This allows you to set the minimum security level required to view your Group. For more information on setting access, see the People manager.
    • Join Access: This allows you to select the level of access a user will need to be able to add this group to his or her profile.
    • Default Access: This is the access level a person is automatically assigned when they add this group to their profile regardless of what their site wide access is set to.
11. When you are through with the group setup, click the Save  icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
12. Exit the Groups manager and return to your Control Panel. 

Setup Security Access for Individual Via People Manager

1. Click on the People icon.
2. If the user in which you are wanting to grant administrative access is already setup in the People manager, locate the user by entering their last name and clicking the Search Users button or by just clicking the Show All Users button and then select the corresponding ID number for the user. Once you open the user's record, skip down to number 5 below. If the user is not in your list, proceed to number 3 below.
   
   
   
3. If the user is not in your People manager list, click the Add New User  icon and enter all necessary data.  For detailed information, visit the Adding a User section within the help manual.
4. While creating the user, you will also assign site-wide access.  If you want the user to have Member site wide access, select Member from the Site Access drop down menu. This will grant the user privilege to any area of the site, not constrained to a group, where content access level is set to "Member" or below.
5. Click the Group Rights tab.
6. Choose appropriate group and set security access for that group to Contributor, Editor or Administrator. In the example, we select "Technical Support" for the Group and "Administrator" for access level within that group.
7. Click the Save  icon in the upper right corner of the dialog box and then close the dialog box.
8. Exit the People Manager and return to your Website Control Panel.

Give Individual Access to Work on an Appropriate Page or Pages Via Pages Manager

1. Click on the Pages icon.
2. Create a new page or open the page you want the individual to work on by double clicking the title of the page.
3. Click the Management tab.
4. Select the appropriate group from the drop down menu.
5. Click the Save icon in the upper right corner of the dialog box.