Today we updated the permission management system in Inhabit Street to give you more control over the forums and who can read, write and update them.  This is particularly useful for building management, building councils and/or strata councils as it allows them to create forums for discussions for only their members.

Inhabit Street now provides a set of Roles that users can be assigned to and you can assign various permissions to each Role. The Roles include:

• Resident
• Owner
• Strata Council
• Moderator
• Administrator

First, you need to assign users to the Council role.

1. Login as an Administrator for your community and navigate to the "resident directory" from the building home page.
2. For every user that you want to add to the Council role, click on the "manage roles" link.
3. Use the check-boxes to add the user to the Strata Council role, and click save.

Then set the forum permissions for that role:

1. Login as an Administrator for your community and navigate to the forum you want to restrict access to.
2. In the forum page, click "administer forum" to navigate to the "edit forum" page.
3. In the Permissions section, check or uncheck the relevant boxes to restrict access.
4. For example, to only allow Strata Council members and Administrators to post to a forum, uncheck the "Post" column for all the roles except Strata Council and Administrators.