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title: "Personal group"
source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/reference/glossary/personal_group.html
description: "A personal group is a private PageSeeder space for members to receive messages and store documents. Named `member-[memberid]-home`, it's accessible only to the member and administrators with specific permissions."
last_updated: 2026-09-08T13:56:46+10:00
tokens: ~383
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# Personal group

A personal group is a reserved PageSeeder group used as a private space for PageSeeder members to receive messages and store personal documents.

## Group vs Project

The name of the personal group is always `member-[memberid]-home`.

The personal project `member-[memberid]` is the container for the personal groups of a given member. For the moment, members can only have one personal group ‘home’ within that project. This could change in future releases.

## User interface

When a user has a personal group, its parent project appears as the full name of the user in the project list of the *navigation menu*.

## Security

A particular feature of the personal group is that it’s only accessible to the member and cannot be accessed by system administrators unless the `adminEnable` [global property](../../guide/configuration/properties/global_properties.md) includes the value `access-personal`.

## Creation

There are several ways personal groups can be created:

1. An administrator can create a personal group manually from the user interface when looking at the personal details of a member – if a member doesn’t have a personal group.
2. An administrator can create personal groups by selecting that option when importing members.
3. Personal groups can also be created programmatically through the API using the service [/members/\{member\}/creategroup \[POST\]](../../api/services/create-personal-group_post.md) or [/members \[POST\]](../../api/services/members_post.md) with `personal-group=true`.