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An organizations can choose to share some of its user groups with other organizations. This can be used to allow users in the organization that shares shared the group (the “source organization”) to visit private worlds that belong to the organization with which the group was shared (the “destination organization”).

Use Cases

Here are two examples of uses cases for this feature.

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• Acme University (which is the source organization) creates a user group called “Students”. It adds the students to this group.

• Acme University sends a share request to The Egyptology Center (the destination organization).

• The Administrator of The Egyptology Center receives the share request by email, and accepts the request.

• The Egyptology Center gets a new group in its group tree, called “Students @ Acme University”. This group always contains exactly the same users as the source group in Acme University.

• The Admins of The Egyptology Center add permissions to the group “Students @ Acme University”, allowing them to visit the worlds that Acme University wants its students to be able to visitits Egypt-themed worlds.

• Users belonging to this group can now visit the worlds that The Egyptology Center authorized them to visit these worlds.

Allowing Contractors to Work on Your Worlds

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In the organization console, all user names can be clicked you can click on any user’s name to get more information about themthe user. One of the details that is shown is the user type: Organization user“Organization user”, Authorized “Authorized external useruser”, External user“External user”, etc. But note that the user type that you see is the current type, which means that it can change over time.

For example, suppose an Authorized External User visits one of the organization’s worlds. When you view the user's information, her type will say: “Authorized external user”. But if later the user is removed from the organization user’s group is unshared and then you view her information again, the type will change to say: “External user”. That’s because the user isn’t affiliated with the organization anymore.

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