Managing Home Page Permissions

The community's home page is typically seen by everyone at one time or another. Often it's the place people stop first to get a snapshot of what's going on. Because it's so central, it's a great place to put things that should be visible to everyone.

In other words, when setting permissions for the home page, keep in mind 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 vote in polls or rating videos, might keep the community more active if they're more broadly granted.

See About Home Page Permission Levels for the list of levels you can grant.

About Home Page Permission Levels

Home page permission levels enable people to create and interact with content that's displayed on the community's main page.

Note: You can't create custom permission levels here, as you can for space permissions.

Permission	Access Granted
Create announcement	Create announcements that appear on the main (and personalized) homepage.
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 appear in user's personal containers.
Comment on videos	Comment on the videos that appear in user's personal containers.

Setting Home Page Permissions

You can set home page permissions in the admin console on the Home Page Permissions page.

Admin Console: Permissions > Home Page Permissions

On the page, under Groups with access, assign permissions to user groups:
- 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 dialog box, select check boxes for the permission levels you want to apply for the user group.
- 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 dialog box, select check boxes for the permission levels you want to apply for the user group.
Click the Set Permissions button.

Creating User Overrides

Create a user override to grant a particular set of permissions to an individual. You might need to create an override if:

A person requires a particular set of permissions for an area, but isn't (and shouldn't be) a member of a group to which you've already assigned permissions for the area.
A person is a member of a group to which you've assigned permissions for an area, but they require a different set of permissions than they've received as a member of the group -- in other words, they're an exception to the rule. For example, you might want to separately define their permissions in order to enhance or limit their access in the area.

Use the following steps to create a user override on the permissions page you're editing:

Under User Overrides, click Create a user override.
In the box, start typing the name of the user for whom you want to set the override. Click the popup that displays the user's name.
Click the Set override button to view the permissions you can set.
In the permissions box for the person you selected, select and clear check boxes as needed. In the end you want the list of checked items to reflect the permissions the person should have. Note that you merely clear a check box to remove a permission -- there's no need to explicitly revoke the permission.
Click Set Permissions to save the override you've created.