Infinit.e.Manager - Communities

Overview

The Infinit.e.Manager Communities page allows users with the appropriate permissions to add, edit and delete communities from the system.

Note: The functionality found on the Communities page is restricted based on account type. System administrators have full access to add, edit, or delete communities while community owners and moderators have permissions to manage those communities that they have edit permissions for.

Add Community

To add a new community:

1. Click on the New Community button;
2. Fill in the required Add New Community form fields: Name, Description and Tags (a comma delimited list);
3. Click on the Create Community button.

The system will create the new community and refresh the page to update the form with the details of the newly created community.

Edit Community

To edit a community simply click on the community's name in the in the Communities list to populate the Edit Community form. You can edit the Name, Description, and Tags associated with a community (all three fields are required) as well as set the following four community attributes:

• Is Public - The community is visible to all users.
• Users Can Self Register - Users can chose to register for a community without being invited by the owner or a moderator.
• Registration Requires Approval - If users can self register does that registration require approval from an owner or moderator.
• Users Can Create Subcommunities 

Community members can be edited by clicking on the Edit Community Members link.

Edit Community Members

Clicking in the Edit Community Members link takes you to the Community Members page which allows you to edit or delete members for a given community. To edit a member simply click on their name in the Member's list (note that the names in the screenshot have been whited out for privacy reasons) and the system will display their details in the Edit Selected Member form. Currently there are only two values that can be edited:

• Member Type - Owner, Moderator, Content_Publisher, Member
• Membership Status - Active, Pending, Disabled

Members can be promoted to moderators or owners of a group, or demoted to be just a member via the Member Type drop down list. It is important to note that there can be only one community owner at any given time.

Community moderators have all the permissions of owners, except the ability to delete the community. "Content Publishers" can create sources without admin/owner/moderator approval (but otherwise have no more access than members). 

New members can be approved (if a community requires registration and approval) by selecting the Active status from the Membership Status drop down list. To remove a user's ability to see the contents of a community you can select the Disabled option from the Status drop down list or you can delete the use by clicking on the "X" button next to their display name in the Members list.

Note: The User Attributes functionality is not current implemented in Infinit.e.

Delete Community

To delete a community click on the "X" button next to the community's name in the Communities list. Please note that the deletion process requires two steps to complete. The first time you click on the "X" button and confirm that you wish to delete the community the system removes all of the users from the community and suspends the community. To delete all shares, sources, and documents within a community you must click on the "X" button a second time. (See the Social - Community - Remove documentation for more information.)