Security Groups are the fundamental categories to which your users belong, and control access to your community site's content at a high level. There are two ways to add users to a Security Group: individually and in groups (via a batch upload).

NOTE: This article describes how to manage users (add and remove) in Higher Logic Security Groups. If your account is integrated with an AMS/CRM database, manage your users' Security Groups assignments in the AMS/CRM only, not in Higher Logic.

Higher Logic Security Groups information

• Learn more about security in your Higher Logic site and the role that Security Groups play in Understand Security Groups.
• You can create Higher Logic Security Groups on the Admin > Users > Security Groups page, and then add users to those groups. See Manage Security Groups to learn how.

Add a User to a Security Group

1. Access the Admin interface.
2. Navigate to Users > List.

3. Select a user in the list.
4. Click Edit.
5. In the resulting dialog, click the HL Managed Security Groups field and select one or more Security Groups.

6. Click Save at the bottom of the dialog to assign the Security Group(s) to the user.

Remove a User from a Security Group

1. Access the Admin interface.
2. Navigate to Users > List.

3. Select a user in the list.
4. Click Edit.
5. In the HL Managed Security Groups field of the dialog, click the X of the Security Group that you want to remove the User from.

6. Click Save at the bottom of the dialog.

TIP: Return to the Users list and add the Security Groups column via the column chooser; verify that the Security Group is not listed for the User.

Bulk-add Users to a Security Group

NOTE: This section is not applicable to customers whose community site is based on the Community Essentials model.

With this method, you can add users to a Higher Logic-managed Security Group by uploading a .csv file of users' email addresses or integration keys.

1. Access the Admin interface.
2. Navigate to Users > Security Groups.

3. Click the security group upload icon above the list.

4. Select the Security Group you want to add the users to from the menu.
5. Select the upload method: via email addresses or integration keys.

6. Click Choose File and browse for the .csv file.
7. Click Upload, followed by Yes in the confirmation dialog.

TIP: Navigate to Users > Security Groups and verify the users were added to your selected Security Group.