Adding Members to Sites

Users and sites are central concepts in Liferay DXP. Sites store all your content and pages, while users access and create that content. User management is covered in User Management, but site-specific configurations for assigning users to sites are detailed here.

Managing Site Membership

Administrators can manage site members with the site’s Memberships app.

  1. Open the Product Menu (Product Menu), click the compass icon (Compass Icon), and select the site you want to manage.

  2. Select PeopleMemberships.

    If you don’t see this option, manual membership is disabled. To enable manual membership, select Site SettingsSite Configuration. In the Details tab, toggle Allow Manual Membership Management.

From the Memberships app, you can view a list of current site members and manage site memberships, organizations, and user group associations. Learn more in Users and Organizations.

The current members of the site appear on the site Memberships page.

Adding Members to a Site

  1. Click New (Add User) in the top right of the screen.

    Use Filter and Order or Search to locate the user you want to add.

    The Assign Users to This Site screen lists all eligible users. Deactivated users do not appear. Existing site members appear with greyed-out checkboxes.

  2. Select the user(s) and click Done.

Removing User Membership from a Site

There are two ways to remove a user from a site. To remove an individual member,

  1. Click Actions (Actions) icon the user you want to remove.

  2. Select Remove Membership.

  3. Confirm the removal in the pop-up.

You can remove individual members from a site.

To remove multiple users,

  1. Select the checkboxes for the users you want to remove.

  2. In the menu at the top of the page, click Delete.

  3. Confirm the removal in the pop-up.

Removed users lose membership in any site roles or teams they had.

Assigning Site Roles

Site roles grant permissions for a specific site. Learn more in Roles and Permissions.

To assign site roles,

  1. Select a user/users and click Assign Roles (through the Actions menu (Actions menu) or the top menu).

    This takes you to the Assign Roles screen.

  2. Choose the roles to assign.

  3. Click Done.

    You can assign site roles to users.

Unassigning Site Roles

You can unassign site roles individually or in bulk.

To unassign a role individually,

  1. In the Memberships application, click Actions (Actions menu) for the user and select Unassign Roles.

    A list of roles assigned to the user appears.

  2. Select the role to unassign and click Done.

The selected role is removed from the user.

To unassign a role in bulk,

  1. In the Memberships application, click Filter and select Roles.

  2. Choose a role. The list of users assigned to that role appears. Select the checkboxes for the users you want to update. Click Remove Role: [Role’s title] to remove the selected role from all selected users.

The role is unassigned for the selected users.

Joining Sites with the My Sites Application

The My Sites application lists the sites a user belongs to. By default, it appears in the User Profile Menu’s Dashboard pages.

Add the My Sites application to a page to view open and restricted sites under the All Sites tab.

Request access to a site by selecting its Actions menu (Actions menu) and clicking Join.

The My Sites Application displays the sites you're a member of and the ones you can join.

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