Relatively full overview of what a group is, how they are nested, group types, etc
FROM GROUP FEATURES (and rewritten)
A group is a logical container of members with similar requirements or interests (for example, your company's product). A group is also a mechanism that follows a parent-child model as it contains or nests members. It also organizes communications the members can use: forums, blogs, wikis, or galleries. While the applications are similar in function, they are not linked together between different groups; that is, a Group A forum is not linked to a Group B forum. The data contained within one group's applications aren't linked between that group's applications.
To picture how Telligent Community's groups are structured, think of the people in your organization, then mentally organize them into functional groups and identify their communication needs. For example, you might have a Product Group in your organization that makes announcements (blogs); writes documentation (wikis); provides downloads (galleries); and fields support requests (forums).
FROM GROUP FEATURES
Groups also have types, which govern the way the group can behave regarding membership. The types include:
- Private Unlisted - Community members can't see this group's activity or users.
- Private Listed - Community members can see users and group activity, but can't participate in group activity.
- Public Closed - Community members can see group activity, but can't see the activity of group members.
- Public Open - Community members can see group members and activity.
- Joinless - Membership isn't tracked (that is, there are no members). Site-level roles control the group's permissions using site-level permissions. Joinless groups are managed by system administrators unless an administrator creates a special role for managing this group.
Within a group container, there are three levels of membership: Group members (can create and view group content, view group members, and invite prospective members); Group managers (have the same permission as group members, but additionally can manage the group); and Group owners (have the same permissions a manager but also can control group settings, add new members, modify the group theme, create new applications, create new roles, and and modify role permissions.
GROUP CREATION AND MANAGEMENT
Groups are created, managed, and deleted from the admin pencil tool in the admin's view, or someone with Group - create permission.
CREATION
In Telligent Community, group is creation is contextual - meaning that you create a group in the context where it will reside (for example, creating a group at the top of the site structure is reached by a Manage Group option in the site-level context.