Community access types

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title: Community access types
description: Access types are used to control access to a forum or a content type.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/customer-service-management/communities/access-types.html
release: australia
product: Communities
classification: communities
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Configuring communities, Communities, Customer Service Management]
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# Community access types

Access types are used to control access to a forum or a content type.

**Important:**

Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

You can define the access types for a forum and a content type in a permission. There are four access types available by default.

|Access type|Description|
|-----------|-----------|
|Forum Admin|Applies to forums.|
|Forum Moderator|Applies to forums.|
|Content Read|Applies to all content types.|
|Content Write|Applies to all content types. Content Read access is automatically included in Content Write.|

**Note:** It is not recommended that you create your own access types. Advanced knowledge of Communities architecture and scripting code to support and interpret the new access type is required.

Contact Customer Service and Support for further information.

To see all available access types, navigate to **Community** > **Administration** > **Access Types**.

**Parent Topic:**[Configuring communities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/configure-communities.md)

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