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Access Tab allows you to customize who can view or access the group’s content, set moderation, join groups and more privacy settings.

  1. Group Discussion Approval: No approval by default; to manually moderate this group’s discussions and replies set to Administrative Approval.
  2. Moderators: Type the name of the person/people to be moderators of the group and approve posts. Regular members and volunteers can be moderators, if no admin access must approve via email.

*For the following options, the default settings will work for most groups.

  1. Teaser Options: Allow the discussion subject lines to be visible on activity feed.  
  1. Public Anyone can view (if not logged it, they will be prompted to if the attempt to click)
  2. Private only approved members (only group members)
  3. Association members only (must be a member in good standing and logged in)
  1. View Options: To view the actual content in the body of a discussion.
  1.  Public anyone can view
  2. Private only approved members (only group members)
  3. Association members only (must have an account and be a member in good standing)
  1. Join Options: Who can join the group?
  1. Public Anyone can join: must have an account in the community but does not have to be a member.
  2. Private only approved members: member or nonmember but must have an account, requests to join and community owner or admin will have to approve.
  3. Association members only: members in good standing can simply click to join.
  4. Association members only with approval: must be a member in good standing to request to join, community owner or admin will have to accept or reject.
  5. Closed no one can join: for private groups or groups where roster is managed exclusively through AMS.
  1. Asset protection
  2. View Opportunities
  3. Resource View
  4. Allowed opportunities
  5. View tasks
  6. Manage Tasks
  7. Sending Newsletters

*The following are special use cases of enhanced security.

  1. Enhanced security:
  2. Burn Security
  3. Explicit group access:

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