Changing your community's access level

Change your community access level to protect any sensitive information contained in it.

About this task

You can restrict or extend the community's privacy level so that people can or cannot join.

Procedure

To change access level, complete the following steps.
  1. From the I’m an Owner view, open the community that you want to change.
  2. Select Community Actions > Edit Community
  3. Change the community’s access level.
    Table 1. Changing access level options
    Current Access type Can be changed to More information
    Public
    • Restricted (people must be invited to join)
    • Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see ...)
    • Moderated
    Moderated
    • Restricted (people must be invited to join)
    • Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see ...)
    • Public
    Restricted (Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community
    • Restricted (people must be invited to join)
    • Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see ...)
    • Moderated
    • Public
    Note: You must remove all External users from the community membership before you deselect (Allow people from outside my organization..)
    Note: Before you can change to Moderated or Public, you must first deselect (Allow people from outside my organization..) and save changes.
    Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see this community's title, description, tags, and owners)
    • Restricted (people must be invited to join)
    • Moderated
    • Public
    Restricted (no other check box selected).
    • Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see this community's title, description, tags, and owners)
    • Moderated
    • Public
    Deselect:
    • Moderated
    • Public
  4. Click Save.