Setting up user group permissions for spaces

For any space, you can assign various permission levels to individual users or groups of users.

Fastpath: Admin Console: Permissions > Space Permissions

You can assign custom permissions levels for any space or sub-space in the community. For more information about space permission levels and overrides, see Standard space permission levels and Custom permission levels and user overrides for spaces. For user groups permissions, the user group must exist before you can assign it permissions.

To set up permissions for user groups to a space:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to Permissions > Space Permissions.
  2. Under View and edit a space's permissions, find and select the space you want to set permissions for.
  3. On the Permissions For: <space name> page, review permissions to a group of users or individual users.
  4. To assign permissions to a user group not yet listed:
    1. Click Add group.
    2. Enter the name of the user group to add.
    3. Click the Select Permissions button.
    4. In the System Administration Permissions for <user_group> dialog box, select check boxes for the permission levels you want to apply for the user group and clear check boxes for the permissions to be removed.
    5. Click Set Permissions.
      The selected permissions are granted to the user group.
  5. To edit permissions for a user group already listed:
    1. Locate the group in the list.
    2. Next to its permission level, click edit permissions.
    3. In the System Administration Permissions for <user_group> dialog box, select check boxes for the permission levels you want to apply for the user group and clear check boxes for the permissions to be removed.
    4. Click Set Permissions.
      The selected permissions are granted to the user group.