# Content Access

## Publishing Target

**Select which groups have access to content.** When you publish content, you can choose which audience you would like to target. All of the groups that you have created will be available as targeting options.

### **Manage Group Access**

**Control content access for each group.** You can manage group access to content in Groups by selecting the options icon for a specific group and then choosing Access.

**Update content access from authoring.** You have the option to use Manage Group Access to add/remove groups who are able to see the content you have selected.

### User can't see content on the app

If a user is in a group that has been given access to specific content but is unable to see the content on the app, try the following:

1. **Check that the user has been added** **to a group that has access.** Use the group search feature to find the user and ensure that they have the necessary content access.
2. **Check that the user is active on the group.** If necessary, resend the invite and ask the user to create an app account.
3. **Make sure that the group has been given** **access.** Open the published content and check that the correct groups have been given access.

### Users didn't get a new content notification

**A content notification email / push notification is sent when new content is published.** Anyone in a group that has been given  access to the new content will be notified. When an update is published, users will also be notified. [#when-are-users-notified-that-they-have-been-given-access-to-content](#when-are-users-notified-that-they-have-been-given-access-to-content "mention")

### **When are users notified that they have been given access to content**

* **When publishing and re-publishing.** When content is published and every time published content is re-published, users will be notified ("Notify users" option must be selected).
* **When subscribed to streams.** Only users who have subscribed to an audio/video stream will be notified when a new episode is added.

### When are users not notified 

* **Adding a group to published content.** When a group is added to already published content, they will not be notified.
* **When a group is removed from having access to content.** When a group is removed from published content, they will not be notified and access will simply be removed.
* **When content is unpublished, no notifications are sent.** When content is unpublished, nobody will be notified.


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