Profiles are an easy way to create and set policies for an individual user or for the different groups of users in your portal.
A Profile will enable or disable access to certain sections in your portal. For instance, you can create a Profile that only has Contacts and Calendars enabled. This means that regardless of which sections are enabled in a given Workspace, any user assigned to this Profile, will only be able to view the Contacts and Calendars sections.
Combining Profiles and Workspace permissions, your portal gives you complete control over which users can have access to which information, but also, which kinds of information.
There is no limitation on the number of Profiles an administrator can create in a portal.
Creating a Profile
From the right-hand side, click on Profiles and then click the "+" to create a new profile. Enter a name and an optional description. You can assign users from here or via drop-and-drop after the Profile is created.
Profile Provisioning
On this screen, click on the different sections to enable the section for this Profile (green means it's enabled). Click the radial button corresponding to the section you want any users assigned to this profile to land on when first logging in to the portal.
Editing a Profile
After you've created a Profile, to edit, simply hover over the Profile on the right-hand side and a gear icon will appear to adjust the Profile's settings.
Assigning Users to a Profile
To assign users to a Profile, simply drag-and-drop one or more users to the appropriate Profile: