Giving Users Group Management Permissions

You can give users permission to add, edit, and delete groups by assigning them a policy that enables group permissions.

You can also give them permission to view, add members, or delete members for a specific group in the settings for the group. See Group Settings for more information about these types of settings.

When users have either group permissions through their policies or through settings for a group, they have access to the User Groups option in the user portal:

For more information on user management of groups, see User Groups.

To add group permissions to a policy:

  1. In the FileCloud admin portal's left navigation bar, scroll down and click Settings. Then, on the Settings navigation page, click Policies .
    The Policies page opens.
  2. Click the Edit icon for the policy of the users who you want to give group permissions.

    The Policy Settings dialog box opens.
  3. Click the User Policy tab.
  4. Scroll down to see the Group policy settings.
    By default, each is disabled.
  5. Change the group settings that you want to enable for users with this policy.
    • Allow group creation - Allows the user to add new groups and manage members in the groups from the user portal.
    • Allows group management - Allows the user to add and remove members from any group, including groups they have not created, from the user portal. This gives the user the ability to add and remove group members to groups created in the admin portal as well as groups created in the user portal.
    • Allow group deletion - Allows the user to delete any groups, including groups they have not created, from the user portal. This gives the user the ability to delete groups created in the admin portal as well as groups created in the user portal.

      If none of these settings is enabled, users with the policy do not see the Manage User Groups option in the user portal unless group access is enabled for individual groups. See Group Settings.