Group Admin Help
This page details the Group Admin features.
What is a Group Admin?
A Group Admin is a regular user who has been added to the Admin list of a group. They have control over the userlist(s) of one or more groups. They are not an XMB Admin, and only have the ability to change the users in a group, not rename the group.
This page contains information for Group Admins. XMB Admin should read this section to understand what Group Admins are able to do.
Accessing the Member Groups page, You'll see something like this:
In the above example, the user logged in is an admin of Group1, and Group2. There is one pending application for Group2. This user is not an admin of Group3, but has the ability to Apply for membership.
Clicking the Edit link for a group takes you to a page like this:
- Description: Enter a short description of the Group (e.g. "VIP Members")
- User List: This is a list of users who are in this group. They must be seperated by commas.
- Application Status: Set to on, this will allow users to apply for membership in this group.
- Deny List: This is a list of users who have applied for membership to this group, and have been denied. This prevents them from re-applying. If you want to allow someone to apply again, simply remove their name from this list. Entries must be seperated by commas.
- Minimum Posts: This is the minimum number of posts a user must have before they can apply for membership. Set to 0 to disable.
Click Submit Changes to save any changes you've made.
Clicking on the Approve link for any group(s) you're an admin for will take you to the approval page. This will allow you to Approve or Deny applications for the Group. It looks something like this:
Here to have three options for each application:
- Approve: Choosing this will approve the application and automatically add the user to the Group's userlist. The user will recieve a U2U informing them of this.
- Deny: Choosing this will deny the application and the user will be added to the Deny list so they may not apply to this group again until another group admin removes their name. The user will recieve a U2U informing them of this.
- Defer: Choosing this will leave the application as is and won't make any changes until such time as you or another admin decide to deny or approve it.
Use the Check All option to automatically mark all applications with that option.
Lastly, as a Group Admin, like a normal Group User, you have the ability to contact all users of the group via E-Mail or U2U. One important difference is in the E-Mail form, you have the option to send the email as HTML if you wish.
