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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), and the properties (see below);
  3. Click on the Create Community button.

Parameters: 

  • Parent Id: allows hierarchical relationships to be set up between communities. Parent/child relationships are used internally as described here, in addition the information can be utilized by applications for whatever domain-specific logic is desired.
  • "is Public": if true, then non-members can see this community
  • "Users can self register": if true, then non-members can request joining this community (if visible); if false, then users can only be invited from within the community
  • "Registration requires approval": if true, then non-members can add themselves to public communities without approval from the community owner/moderators
  • "Users can create sub-communities": if false, then members without moderator/owner rights can create child communities.
  • "Members are visible to other members": TODO

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. The same fields as above can be edited.

Community members can be edited by clicking on the Edit Community Members link, if visible. Community owners and moderators and system administrators can add new members from the Add 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. If a member is promoted to owner then the current owner is demoted to moderator.

Community moderators have all the permissions of owners, except the ability to delete the community or change owner. "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 more permanently remove the user 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.

Add Community Members

This generates a page that shows all non-members that are visible by the user. The users can be selected by checking the checkbox next to their name on the left, and pressing the "Add Selected People" button will add them to the community as members.

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.)

 

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