Mercury Groups

Groups serve as buckets for content, and are often associated with an academic unit or office. Separate groups for sub-units can be added as needed. For instance, a research center could have its own Mercury group separate from its parent school or interdisciplinary research institute.

However, the main purpose of groups is not to sort or categorize content, but to control who can edit (and delete) content.

Users are associated with groups and may have varying permissions within each group; it is possible to have different roles in different groups. All Mercury users are members of one or more groups (at a minimum, your major affiliation plus the Hg Training group).

Consult the groups directory (login to Mercury required) to request membership from a group's manager. If none of the existing groups apply to your needs, please use the Group Request form to submit a request for a new group, or the support form to request an ownership update for an existing group.

Mercury Roles

Each Mercury group has different sets of permissions for different users. Each permissions set is collected into a "Role", of which these are the main types:

• Author
• Editor
• Administrator

Author

Everyone you add to your group will have this role. An author can create content and feeds, but cannot make that content live (i.e. Publish it) and often cannot edit other people's content or feeds. This role is mainly useful if your group wants to:

• have some users moderate content before it is made public,
• allow people from other units to create draft content for your group, or 
• allow people from other units to automatically add their events/news to your group/calendar.

Editor

An editor can edit and publish content created by authors, and create and edit feeds.

Administrator

This role can do all the above plus add new members to a group, and can allow people to become "Authors" or "Administrators" for a group.