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Creating a Restricted Group

Any person can request to join a restricted group, but the moderator of the group must accept or reject the request. Members of a restricted group can discuss matters among the group and non-members do not have access to those discussions or documents within the group.

When a department page is created, an open community group is automatically created and associated with the department, as shown in the following figure. Anyone in the intranet can join that public group.

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For information about joining or inviting colleagues to a group, see Adding Members to a Restricted Group.

If you want to use the eI_CommunityGroupMembers widget to display only the staff members of your department, create a new, restricted group and invite only the members of the department staff.

To create a restricted group, follow these steps:
  1. On a department page in the block on the left side of the page, click Group Spaces. The Group Spaces page appears.
  2. On the right side, click Create Group. The Create Group dialog box appears.
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  3. Specify a Group Name, such as Quality Assurance Staff.
  4. Click the Restricted radio button.
  5. Optionally specify the other fields, select a category on the Category tab, and click Save (). The new group appears in your group list.
To display the new group on your department page, follow these steps.
  1. Edit the department page using PageBuilder.
  2. Open the widget menu () and drag and drop the eI_CommunityGroupMembers widget onto the page.
  3. Click Edit (). The Editing dialog box appears.
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  4. Specify the Group ID and change the Header. For example, the header might be Quality Assurance Staff like the name of the group.

    Note: To find the Group ID, open the Workarea and choose Settings > Community Management > Tags > Community Groups. The group list displays in the main panel. Note the ID number for the Editing Widget dialog box.

  5. Click Save. The new group appears on the department page.

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