Define organizations, communities, User groups and roles

Organizations represent a hierarchy of users, such as a department or subsidiary. Administrators can manage user membership, define roles, and set up the attributes of an organization.


Communities are a set of users with no hierarchy. Administrators can create communities, manage user membership, define roles, and set the attributes of a community. 

User groups are a shortcut to a loose group of users, regardless of community or organization membership. Administrators can define a user group and assign the user group as members of a community if desired.


Roles are groupings of users that share a particular function within the portal, according to a particular scope. Administrators can add roles which can be granted permissions to various functions within portlet applications.