Grant Group Permissions by Reputation

Grant User Permissions by Reputation

micheled created · Apr 06, 2017 at 06:04 PM

The recommended way to use permissions on the AnswerHub platform is by granting permissions for a specific group. Users should then be added to or removed from groups to control the ways in which they can interact with your platform more efficiently.

For example: You may want to give users in a group the ability to earn additional permissions, such as Moderator permissions. You can use the By Reputation option to let a user earn permissions based on how many reputation points they have.
Prerequisite: You must be a member of the default Super User group or have the Edit permissions permission granted as a user in order to grant and revoke permissions.

To grant group permissions by reputation, follow these steps:

From anywhere in the AnswerHub User Interface (UI), click the Avatar () dropdown menu and select Administration.

Result: The Administrator Dashboard is displayed with the Dashboard tab pre-selected.
Select the Users & Groups tab.

Result: The Users & Groups Summary pane is displayed.
From the Groups box, click the Manage Groups link.

Result: The Manage Groups pane is displayed.
From the table, locate the group you want to grant or revoke permissions, and click Permissions from the right-hand column.

Result: The Permissions–[Selected Group] pane is displayed.
To add either site- or space-level permissions, click the Gear () icon from the corresponding column and select Advanced from the drop-down menu.

Result: The Advanced editor window is displayed.

Note: If you need to set sub-space permissions, click on the name of the parent space. That space will replace the site column and any nested spaces (sub-spaces) will display in the green columns.
Click the Status drop-down menu and select By Reputation.

Result: A box is displayed in the reputation column.
Enter the number of reputation points that a user must have in order to be assigned this permission.

For example: If you enter 10 in this box a group member must have a reputation that meets or exceeds 10 in order to be assigned this permission automatically.
Note: If the border of the drop-down permission box is a different color than the fill color, that means a permission was inherited from elsewhere, but is being overridden for the selected site, space, or sub-space. Remember that whichever text is displayed in the box, Revoked or Granted, is the current state of the overridden permission in the selected space.
For example: If the border is green and the fill color is red (), the permission had been granted at a higher level in the AnswerHub Hierarchy, but is revoked at the current level.
Click the OK () button.

Result: The modified permissions are displayed in the column you selected in step 5.