Create a Member Group

You can create member groups in your Govstack CMS to give its members exclusive access to certain areas of your website content. You can add members to a member group once you have created it.

You need to have access to the 'Members' tab in the Govstack CMS main menu and be assigned to the "Sensitive data" user group in order to view and create member groups and add members to them.

Create a member group

To create a new member group in your Govstack CMS, you need to:

1. Select the 'Members' tab from the Govstack main menu
2. Next to the 'Member Groups' folder, select the three dots '...' then select 'Create'
3. Enter a name for the new member group
4. Select 'Save'

The member group will now be available to assign to specific areas of your website and add new members to.

Add a member to a member group

Before you can add someone to a member group, you first need to add them as a Govstack CMS member.

To add a member to a member group so they can view member-only content for that group, you need to:

1. Select the 'Members' tab from the Govstack main menu
2. Next to the 'Members' folder, select the three dots '...' then select 'Member' under 'Create a new member'
3. Under the 'Content' tab, enter the user's name
4. Under the  'Member' tab, enter the user's login username and email address (they may both be the user's email address)
5. Add a password that the user will have to use to view member-only content assigned to their user group
6. Next to 'Member Group', select 'Add' to assign the user to a member group
7. Select the member group you want to add the user to, then click 'Submit'
8. Select 'Save' to save the new group member