In Tiki, Groups are the primary means to control permissions settings and access to categories of objects in your web site. It is one of the features that makes Tiki stand out from the other wiki/cms software out there.

Using groups and categories, you can create your own "wiki hotel" where any number of groups can have private "rooms" (sets of pages) that only they (and the site administrators of course) can access.

To configure groups goto http://yoursite/tiki-admingroups.php

Each group can have a group home page that they are automatically taken to when they log into the site. If they are a member of several groups, the default group is chosen.

This is only available once it is enabled, via
Admin->General->Navigation Tick box: Use group homepage.

1. Create a group and a category with the same name e.g: steering (a committee)
2. Have a list of users, you can upload a .csv if you like, either way assign all your users to this group.
3. Assign pages to the category you created.
4. Assign permissions to the category such that the permissions view_categories and admin_categories are awarded to the appropriate group.
5. Ensure that any new pages created are included in the category as well, otherwise they will not be protected.

Tiki, moreover, has another way to manage groups, categories and permissions in a more flexible and advanced way, but if you are new to Tiki, you will be fine adding groups, categories and permissions step by step.

When you are an advanced user / admin, and you need to manage large sets of groups with some frequency (like educational scenarios), you can take advantage of the "Workspaces" feature.

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To create a group:

• Expand the Admin drop down:
• Click on Groups, you'll see the page below

• Fill in the form with the group name and description
• If the group you are creating should be included as a sub-group of another group, use the include box to choose the group or group that the new group should be a part of.
  Note: By default, all groups will include the Registered group.
• If the group should have it's own homepage, put the wiki page name or full URL in the Home Page Box (Do not forget to have checked 'Use group homepages' in admin->general ) . Special value: the user homepage prefix (ex: UserPage) can be use to redirect a user to his homepage at login.
• When all fields have been filled in click the Add button. The form will refresh and you group will appear in the new list (see below)
• Group Default Category(Default category assigned to objects edited by a group user): (tw>=1.10)If a user with a default group (do not forget to set the default group for each user) edits (create or modify) an object and save the object without putting a category, the specified category is automatically assign to the object.

From the user administration screen click on the gold key to the right of the user line.

The assign user form will be opened (see below)

This form shows the user information, the group that the user already belongs to, and a list of group that the user can join. There are also shortcuts to group permissions, group admin, and user admin from this page.

From the group administration screen click on the gold key icon for a particular group and you will see a screen divided in two parts. The first part (see below)shows the permissions that are currently set for the group.

The lower part of the screen shows all the permissions available to the group, as well as details about the currently assigned permissions.

The entry below shows that the permission has been inherited from the permissions given to registered users.

An entry like the one below shows that the group has permission to administer the feature, in this case, calendars.

Additional permissions are assigned by clicking the checkboxes next to the permission, and then clicking the update button at the top or bottom of the page when finished.

• To change a group, click on the group name
• To change permissions on a group, click on the key icon
• To remove a group, click on the X.

After clicking on the group you want to change, you'll see the form above.

• To change group Name, Description, Subgroups Included, or Homepage, edit the form and click the save button.
• To remove a group member, click on the red X next to the members name. __Note!: This does not remove the user, it just takes them out of the group.

see: Group Tracker

In this section you can see information for the group that you selected as name, description and permissions assigned.

Then you can create a new permission level and you can if you want assign all the permissions in some level to the group. Or remove all the permissions in some level from this group. As you can see permissions are organized in levels. By default Tiki comes with four prearranged levels that you can modify as you want:

• Basic: permissions for anonymous users, basic site usage
• Registered: permissions for logged users
• Editor: Permissions to site editors can manipulate content.
• Admin: Permissions for admins only. Can be dangerous if misused

In the second part of the screen you can assign permissions and change levels.

The top section is used to select a permission category, for example games, forums, FAQs,etc. All can be used to see all the permissions at once (the screen will be VERY long). For each category for which permissions will be displayed the checkboxes indicate if the permission is assigned to the group or not. You can assign/remove permissions using the checkboxes; you can also change the level of any permission using the dropdown. In this way you can re-classify the permissions as you need and then easily assign all level-x permissions to a group whenever you want.

When a user belongs to more than one group the permissions are accumulated.

Permissions are what group CAN do. Note that permissions always ALLOW group to do things; there are no restrictive permissions in Tiki because they can conflict if the user belongs to more than one group. The list of permissions that you can assign to group are:

Permissions are created dynamically. See the Wiki SQL plugin for information

missing permissions here

What if you want to give a specific user some permissions? Just create an artificial group, assign the user to that group and give the group the permissions that you need.

As we explained you can set up individual permissions for some Tiki objects. When assigning individual permissions the permissions you can assign are the same as you have in the global permissions screen. Once an object has individual permissions only the individual permissions apply to the object, and not the global permissions.

The following objects accept individual permissions:

• Wiki pages
• Image galleries
• File galleries
• Forums
• Weblogs
• Newsletters
• Surveys
• Quizzes
• Trackers

• Permissions
• Users
• Group Transitions
• Group emulation