======About Members======

People you invite to access your portal are known as Members. Members are associated with a particular [[Portals portal,]] rather than free agents that can browse all of your portals.

What Members are able to see and do when visiting your portal is up to you. Their [[Access access]] is managed using [[MemberGroups Member Groups.]] As Portal Administrator, you create Member Groups with particular permissions and then assign Members to those groups. For example, if a particular Member Group is not granted permission to access the [[Forums portal forum]], the individual members of that Member Group will NOT be able to see the forum.

Members that you wish to help you with your portal need to be given [[AccountAdministrators Administrator access]]. This gives them all the same permissions as the [[Accounts Account Owner]], although the ability to delete portals and modify administrator permissions can be withheld.

===**Related features**===
- [[Access About Access]]
- [[MemberGroups About Member Groups]]
- [[PortalMembersGrid List of Portal Members]]
- [[Portals About Portals]]
- See [[ProjectGlossary the project glossary]] for other terms used in this documentation

===**Related functions**===
- [[MemberInvite Invite a new member]]
- [[MemberAddToGroup Add a member to a Member Group]]
- [[MemberRemoveFromGroup Remove a member from a Member Group]]
- [[MemberRemove Delete a member]]

----
CategorySCPAccess