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Liferay Portal 6.x Enterprise Intranets (Update)

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Liferay Portal 6.x Enterprise Intranets (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay Portal 6.2 Enterprise Intranets
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Web Content Management
Index

User groups


Like many departments, a company might have several user groups. Palm Tree Publications has Julia Maurer, an Editorial manager in the Germany office and John Stucki, a website manager also in the Germany office. Both are managers but belong to different departments, thanks to the user group called Managers that contains a number of users belonging to different departments. Let's go ahead and create them.

User groups provide a way to group users independently of the organizations to which they belong. Administrators can define a user group and assign the user group as a member of a site to make all of its users members automatically.

User groups give some of the best solutions. They help to simplify the mapping of several roles to a group of users. They helps us to simplify membership to one or more sites by specifying a group of users. And they help us to provide predefined public or private pages to the users who belong to the user group.

Adding a user group

First of all, we will...