As a community manager, after groups and applications are created, you have control over changes in how the community is organized for example, allowed logins) and  how the content in applications is captured or managed. Most importantly, you have the ability to create, delete, or edit users and also to perform these functions with user roles.

This guide contains the following sections:

  1. Adjust the organization of the community:
    1. Restrict user accounts - Create, delete, or edit users. 
    2. Specify who can log in - Change the number of allowed login attempts, lockout period, or time in which login attempts occur.

  2. Change membership and membership rules:
    1. Configuration tab:
      1. Avatars - Allow your community members to uniquely identify each other beyond the username/display name.
      2. Friendship settings - Specify friendship properties such as default request text sent with friendship requests.
      3. How visitors are tracked - Change Telligent Community's default settings for tracking visitors.
      4. New user experience - Customize the experience of any new member.
      5. Registration experience - Change login and registration options, contact checkbox options, set username limits, and decide on account activation practices.
      6. User profile configuration - Set user profile properties, such as user name display, signatures, and gender. 
    2. Members and Roles tab:
      1. Add a user account - Set up a user account, including sign-in name, password, email address, and timezone.
      2. Assign one or more roles to a user - Change the roles a user has, or remove them from the automatically assigned roles.
      3. Ban or disapprove user accounts - Prevent the user from accessing your site, and ensure that as long as he/she uses the same email address, he/she will be unable to create a new account.
      4. Change a user's account - Change username, password, site settings, profile settings, or roles.
      5. Change a user's avatar - Change this avatar if it is not appropriate for your community or prevent any user from being able to change his/her avatar.
      6. Change a user's display settings - Change a user's timezone, day of the week, text editor, emoticon usage, name display, membership widget display, avatar display, or a user's configurable signature.
      7. Change a user's email and contact settings - Enable or disable a user's email, or override contact settings.
      8. Clone an existing role - Create a copy of a site role.
      9. Create a new role - Create an entirely new role on the site.
      10. Customize site wide roles - Change the permissions of a role at the site level.
      11. Delete a role - Remove a role from your site.
      12. Impersonate a user - Explore a user's capabilities on the site.
      13. Modify a user's profile content - View and change key components of any user's profile.
      14. Remove a user account - Remove a user and reassign his content.
      15. Search for a user in Control Panel - Use simple or search to locate a user or use date and role information to locate someone.
    3. Site Administration tab member settings:
      1. Control user posting performance - Measure user activity and ranking in the community.
      2. Customize a user rank - Create a new rank and assign it a badge that appears on user profiles.
      3. Membership points and member rankings - Learn how Telligent Community's MPS works.
      4. Updating your community membership points - Use the Control Panel to recalculate points in your community.
  3. Telligent Community Control Panel:
    1. Change the source of latest announcements - Set the announcement URL in your communityserver_override.config file to your own site's RSS feed.
    2. View your version of Telligent Community - See exactly what build of Telligent Community you are running.