Edit Group Help

Required internal name for this group.  It can be an abbreviated form of the group title or other text string.  You should not have spaces in the group name and should make it unique.

Title is the external name for this group.  The title is what you see when you select groups in drop down menus and when listed in the directory.  

A group's position in the group structure is determined by setting this group's parent.  When you are creating a new group, the selection set will be all existing groups.  You are permitted to make the new group a child of any existing group including the special "Root".  Note that when you edit an existing group the parent group select will not include the group itself or any of its children.  You cannot make a group its own parent nor can you make the child groups a parent.  When you click Submit, the group and its children will be positioned in the group tree where you placed them.  Moving an entire group subtree is as simple as selecting the highest parent group and selecting a new parent for that.  

Be very careful as you make your selections. When you move a group into a new location, its options and especially its privileges will change.  The group will lose any privileges inherited from the old parent and gain privileges from the new. You could for example edit a group that contains most of your membership and change its parent to a group with administrative privileges thus enabling all your members to have administrative capability. 

When this option is selected, this group and its child groups will be visible in the public directory.  Members who belong to this group and have opted themselves to be visible in the directory will be listed.  By making parts of your group structure visible you enable external users to browse through categories of your members to get a list meaningful to them.

When checked, this group will be listed in the dropdown menu of groups that members may select when sending a group e-mail.  Group e-mail may only be sent via the web mailer provided on your site and only by members who have the privilege to send group mail.

When checked, this group accepts public E-mail.  Typically this is only set for the group named 'contact'.  This site contact group receives all mail sent by guests that go to your contact page.

Normally users are assigned to groups by an administrator.  When this is checked however, this group and its children are open to your membership to select for themselves.  This goes hand-in-hand with the option to make the group publicly visible.  You should provide enough groups that your membership can define themselves appropriately for browsing, but not so many that a drop down menu will be unmanageably long.

This very basic privilege simply allows the user to be active and able to log in.  All active users should have this privilege. Your organization may wish to keep accounts for members no longer active preventing login but maintaining the other account information.  Create a special group which doesn't have this privilige and assign these users to them

This privilege allows member users to be able to opt-in to the public directory. Your organization may have criteria for its members to meet before they may be listed in the directory such as the payment of a fee or some other criteria. Create an organizational group with this privilege and assign eligible users to that group

Users with this privilege are enabled to create a single web page for themselves on this site. If created and enabled by that user a link to that page is part of that member's information in the directory. Note: the web page is completely free format. Users may organize that page and state what they wish. Your organization should have guidelines regarding what is acceptable content.

This enables members the ability to see other members 'non-public' data. The member directory is organized as an opt-in meaning that users data is not listed there unless they specifically enable it to be. This privilege overrides that choice for members with the privilege. Your membership should be aware of your privacy policies especially if you choose to allow all members this privilege.

Members with this privilege are allowed to send mail to all the members of a given group. Group mail can only be sent to those groups that have been configured to receive group mail. You should set organizational policies regarding the use of group e-mail as it can generate a lot of e-mail traffic to members who don't want it.

When members have this privilege, they are permitted to modify their own account data. It is desirable to permit members to do this as they are most capable and motivated to keep this information up-to-date. The Edit Account dialog looks much the same as the administrator's Edit User Account except that certain fields are missing and the group selection set is limited.

Members with this privilege may delete their own account. If your organization is such that you have a continual rollover of members you should consider enabling this for members. This allows them to remove themselves from your directory, mailing lists, etc.

This privilege should be assigned to your organization members who are the approvers of new online registrations. If your organization has a process other than online registration you should use the Edit Members privilege instead.

Members with this privilege are allowed to assign organizational groups. Normally the average member is only permitted to select groups designated as self-selectable. Normally you should limit the set of groups that are self-selectable to those that describe a member (i.e. Children's Book Author) and require that all remaining groups be assigned by an administrator. This administrator would have the Assign Organizational Groups privilege.

Members with this privilege are permitted to download member information such as name, address, phone, etc in a form which can be imported into a spreadsheet. This should be used primarily for those administrative members who must maintain mailing lists, etc. Note: Limiting the number of users that have download access doesn't ensure member privacy if a larger number of users are enabled to view non-public data. While this facilitates the ability to make lists, a devious person could still parse the directory listing and derive a list from that as well.

Members with this privilege may create new member accounts and edit existing member account data. If they also have Assign Organizational Groups privilege they can assign these roles to members of your organization. You should limit this privilege to a select few members who's role is to manage your membership.

Members with this privilege will be permitted to send an e-mail to all the members produced in a given directory search. This is an easy and powerful way to select an arbitrary set of users and send mail to that list. The list is the result of any directory browse or search. Be sure members with this capability can be trusted as this ignores any group level mail settings. For example, the group 'Board' may be configured to not accept group e-mail but a result list e-mail to the list produced by browsing 'Board' would effectively override this.

This privilege goes hand in hand with the Edit Members privilege. Members with this privilege are enabled to comletely delete other member accounts, including their own.

Members with this privilege are permitted to create and modify site groups. You should be careful about who has this capability. Users with this capability need to understand groups, privilege, inheritance of privilge, etc. It would be very easy to make a mistake and grant or remove privileges you don't want. For example if the administrator mistakenly selects the Site Administrator on the 'members' group, all your members will have the capability to manage (or destroy) the site.

Members with this privilege are permitted to remove groups from the site.

The Site Administrator is a special case privilige. The site administrator is the equivalent of a super-user. The site administrator can add and remove pages, edit the content of site pages, and implicitly has all privileges. You should limit the number of site administrators and they should be trained.