Management

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The module Organic groups access control (og_access) provides for Access (visibility) for groups and/or group content.

Enabling the module starts a permission rebuild process which can take some time to finish.

Note that setting visibility to private for a Group does not imply its content is private too.

Organic group permissions can be set for a group type or a specific group.

Group Access

To control access to groups it is necessary to add another field to a group type. From the Organic Group configuration page, click on OG

To control access to group content it is necessary to add another field to a group content type. From the Organic Group configuration page,

As a group administrator you can add and remove people via the Group tab on the group page. Click on the Add people link to join users to

While many site administrators may prefer to manage group roles and permissions at the group type level, it is possible to configure roles

If a group administrator goes to the Group tab for a group there are links to Permissions and Roles. By default the linked pages are read