The Community Member role can still be given or removed from a user affiliated with a community

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1 EE SP4 (5.1.7), 5.2 EE SP3 (5.2.7)
• Fix Version/s: 5.1 EE SP5 (5.1.8), 5.2 EE SP4 (5.2.8)
• Component/s: Application Security > Permissions
• Labels:
  • 5.2_release_notes
• Environment: All

The Community Member role is now implicitly given to all users affiliated with a community. However, one can still give or take away the Community Member role through the Communities portlet through Assign Members -> Assign User Roles screen. This option must be removed.