Activity Rights

Activity rights define what a member of a group can do. For example, you can specify that users can create communities, create folders, create content types, and create portlets. Activity rights are global and cumulative. If a user is a member of multiple groups, each with different rights, that user inherits all the activity rights of all the parent groups. That user can exercise all of those rights in any area of the portal to which that user has the appropriate access. Groups can also inherit activity rights.

To add activity rights:

1. Under Activity Rights, click Add Activity Rights to display the Select Activity Rights dialog box.

2. Select the activity rights you want to add. For example, if you select Create Jobs, the members of the group will be able to create jobs in the portal.

3. To save the group activity rights, click Finish.

To remove activity rights, select the activity right that you want to remove and click .

Important: It is not necessary to grant a user the right to create a type of object for that user to manage an object of that type. Management of an object is based solely on a user’s access privilege to that object.

Under Inherited Activity Rights you see any activity rights granted to the parent groups of this group.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Group Editor:
• To create a new group:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Group.
• To edit an existing group:
1. Navigate to the group you want to edit.
2. Click the group name.
3. On the left, under Edit Object Settings, click Activity Rights.

You can also edit groups from within some other object editors by clicking the name of the group.