Hiding the Communities tab during testing and content development lets you make sure members don't use their communities before they are ready for roll out.
To hide/show Communities
1. Select Tools > Site designer > Manage sitemaps, and select your sitemap from the drop list.
2. Click the Communities navigation item, scroll to Access Settings, enable Apply changes to all descendants, and select a new security set.
□ Administrators Full Control lets you hide the tab while you implement Communities on the site.
□ Authenticated Users Full Control lets you hide the tab until after members log in.
□ Everyone Full Control lets the general public see the tab without logging in.
3. Save your work and Preview your changes.
4. Repeat this process for any other sites for which you want to change Communities visibility.
5. Publish when ready.
Tip:
■ It is possible to mismatch access so that a subscriber cannot access the community. Be sure your Access Settings are compatible between the sitemap and the community's Security.
■ The link to Communities displays in a secondary navigation area.
Note: Membership in the SysAdmin security role effectively grants the full set of Document System permissions and the full set of CAG permissions (you are effectively a member of a MasterAdmin CAG too). However, to participate in web content authoring workflow, even members of the SysAdmin role must be an explicitly-listed member of at least one CAG.