To start sharing users and roles:
• | Select portal to share from the tree view on the left and click the Add link |
• | This will start the Portal Sharing Wizard |
• | Select desired Shared Area from the drop down box |
• | Select one or both "sharing direction" options: |
a) | Share data from portal - if selected, the portal user accounts, roles and role groups data will be shared with the Shared Area, |
b) | Share data from Shared Area - if selected, the user accounts data from Shared Area will be available in portal (data shared by other portals) |
• | Click Next to continue to selection of users to be shared, |
• | by default Share All Users option is selected but you can disable it |
• | and select to share only users belonging to a certain role(s), |
• | select roles and/or role groups to share |
• | and click Next to continue, |
• | select roles to share user-in-role assignments, |
• | and click Next to continue, |
• | confirm the sharing, this will execute procedures that actually share users, roles and user-in-role assignments, |
• | Portal "My Website" is now shared to Shared Area 1 |
• | Let's add another portal |
• | this time we share from Shared Area only. |
• | this will cause selected users from portal My Website available in portal P1 but users from P1 will not be shared |
• | the wizard jumps right to the confirm dialog because there is nothing to share from portal |
• | now the number of users in portal P1 has increased from 1 to 3, |
• | also the role and the role groups is shared and shared users retain their original role assignments, |
* DNNMasters User Manager Suite can help in management of users and roles.
The module is fully compatible with DNN 5.x and with MPUS-X.
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