Overview of Home page and Other Content permissions

Other Content permissions enable global permissions for features that affect the application on a global level. These permissions enable people to create and interact with content that is displayed on the community Home page, or fine-tune what users can do with updates in their personal containers and videos that they upload into the projects, spaces, or groups they belong to.
Important: We do not recommend that you use widgets and widgetized Overview pages (including the Home page) in your community. For more information, see Understanding pages in places.

The community's Home page includes global permissions for actions like managing announcements, which is typically seen by everyone at one time or another. If you have enabled the Home page in your community, it can be a great place to put things that should be visible to everyone. When setting permissions for the Home page, remember that you might want to offer some kinds of access to people who have an active role in the community as a whole, and some kinds more broadly. For example, a community manager could be given permission to create announcements. Other kinds of access, such as voting in polls, rating videos, might keep the community more active if they're more broadly granted. For more information, see Overview of Home page and Other Content permissions.

The video and update features include global permissions for actions like commenting on status updates or videos. These permissions can be enabled or disabled for groups of users. You can customize permissions for groups of users in Other Content Permissions page of the Admin Console.

Note: You can only use the following standard permission levels for Home page permissions.
Permission Access Granted
Create announcement Create announcements that appear on the Home page
Create poll Create polls at the system level
Vote in polls Vote in polls created at the system level
Create video Create and upload videos in their personal containers
Rate videos Rate the videos that they can access
Comment on videos Comment on the videos that they can access
Create and Repost status updates Create their own status updates and repost someone else's update
Like status updates Like status updates of other users, which affects their status points
Comment on updates Comment on other user status updates
View status updates Allows users to view updates that others post
Insert status update images Add images to their update as an attachment
Insert comment images Add images to comments on updates
DM/Sharing user override Override the DM/Sharing connection requirement
Create Attachments Create attachments on content
Insert images Insert images into content
Customize Site Customize site appearance (theming)
Manage Slideshow Carousel Manage the slide show displayed in a carousel widget used on the community's Home page and Overview pages
Save JavaScript Create static HTML content that references or embeds JavaScript