Permissions for external groups

Jive provides the Create externally accessible group permission that allows users to create social groups with external access. The Manage social group permission also gives users this ability, but it also includes being able to manage any social group.

Fastpath: Admin Console: Permissions > Social Group Permissions

You can assign the Create externally accessible group permission to either individual users (user override) or groups of users (user groups). The user group must exist before you can assign it permissions.

For more information about managing permissions, see Managing social group permissions. For more information about managing user groups, see Managing user groups.

Setting user group permission for externally accessible social groups

Generally, to set up a user group permission for creating and managing external social groups:

Create a new user group for the users who must be able to create externally accessible social groups on the People > Management > User Group Summary page. For more information, see Creating user groups.
Assign the Create externally accessible group permissions to the user group created in Step 1 on the Permissions > Social Group Permissions page. For more information, see Setting up social group permissions for user groups.

With the user group in place, you can manage users with the permission by adding them to the user group or removing them from the group. For more information, see Adding and removing users to user groups.

Creating user overrides for social groups

Although creating user groups is preferable, you can assign the Create externally accessible group permissions to individual users.

To set up for creating and managing external social groups for particular users:

Assign the Create externally accessible group user override to the users on the Permissions > Social Group Permissions page. For more information, see Configuring user overrides to social groups.