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title: "Managing site group users"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Efficiently manage site group users in Acquia Site Factory. Learn to add members, remove users, and modify permissions to control website access and organize your digital properties effectively."
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[Site groups](/site-factory/manage/website/groups-manage) allow you to organize your websites into logical groups (such as by product line or geographic area). You can also use your site groups to control which users have access to the websites in the Site Factory Management Console.

When users who don’t have the [platform admin](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/platform-admin) role sign in to the Site Factory Management Console, they can view only websites in groups to which they have access, and all websites that don’t belong to any group.

Groups can contain the following member types:

*   **Group member**: Can view and access websites and site collections contained by the group
    
*   **Group administrator**: Same permissions as a group member, but can also add or remove other group members (except for the group owner)
    
*   **Group owner**: The user account that created the group. The group owner has the same permissions as a group administrator, but can delete the group
    

Note

*   Users with the platform admin role can access all groups and websites, can add or remove members from any group, and can delete any group displayed in the Site Factory Management Console.
    
*   You cannot make another user account the group owner for a group.
    

Adding group members
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To allow a user to access a group (and the websites that it contains):

1.  Go to the group’s detail page.
    
2.  In the **Members** section, click **Manage** to open the **Manage users** page.
    
    ![Adding group members](https://acquia.widen.net/content/1pawmllvdu/jpeg/site-factory_adding-group-members.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=u1mnox)
    
3.  Enter an existing Site Factory Management Console user name in the **Username** field. The **Manage users** page displays user accounts that match your entry as you type.
    
4.  Click **Add user**.
    
5.  Click **Save**.
    

The user account is now a member of the current group and all of its subgroups.

Removing group members
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To remove users from a group:

1.  Go to the group’s detail page.
    
2.  In the **Members** section, find the user accounts that you want to remove from the group.
    
3.  Click the minus icon for each user that you want to remove.
    
    ![Removing group members](https://acquia.widen.net/content/whvgtyyxd3/jpeg/site-factory_removing-group-members.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=u1mnox)
    
4.  Click **Remove** on the confirmation page.
    

The users are no longer members of the group or its subgroups, and if they don’t have the platform admin role, they can no longer view the websites contained by the group or subgroups in the Site Factory Management Console.

Note

You cannot remove the group owner account from a group.

Changing a member’s type
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To increase or decrease a user account’s permissions for a group that they already have access to:

1.  Go to the group’s detail page.
    
2.  In the **Members** section, click **Manage**.
    
3.  In the **People in this group** section, find the user account for which you want to modify its permissions.
    
4.  Select from the following options to increase or decrease group permissions:
    
    ![Changing group membership](https://acquia.widen.net/content/grugqu9o8p/jpeg/site-factory_changing-group-membership.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=u1mnox)
    
    *   To make a group member a group administrator, click **Make group admin**.
        
    *   To make a group administrator a group member, click **Remove group admin**.
        
5.  Click **Confirm** to confirm the permission change.