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Groups help you organize community content and enhance communication.
Parent/child group architecture
Telligent Community Server gives group owners the flexibility to create groups within groups, a parent/child group architecture. This is a key component of the groups concept. Applications can be moved from one group to another in a way that makes sense to users.
Support for multiple application instances
In Community Server, both parent groups and child groups support multiple application instances. This characteristic allows group owners to organize group content in a logical way and allows users easier information access.
When a user joins a group, he/she is automatically subscribed to its applications, and is shown messages about new posts.
Topic-driven navigation architecture
Content is organized by content topic. URLs also reflect the topic-driven navigation structure.
Administrative functions are separated from management functions
Administration and management are separated. Post and specific application settings or information is located in the Management panel. Global application or site settings are located in the Administration panel.
Group types
Administrators and owners can choose from among the following types when they create or edit groups:
- Joinless - Membership is not tracked. Group permissions are managed using site-level roles. Joinless groups are managed by administrators unless an administrator creates a special role for managing this group type. By definition, joinless groups do not have members.
- Public open membership - Community users can see group members and activity. Additional group information is visible in the sidebar.
- Public closed membership - Community users can see group activity and additional group information in the sidebar, but can't see the activity of group members.
- Private listed - Community users can see users and group activity, but can't participate in group activity.
- Private unlisted - Community users can't see users or group activity.
Permissions and membership
When a user joins a group, he/she inherits the permissions assigned to his/her group membership type (in addition to his/her role permissions). If a user joins a child group, he/she inherits his/her permissions from the parent group. The permissions are transferred to all group applications but blogs - which have an additional layer of permissions associated with a blog owner/author.
Groups support three levels of membership:
Membership type |
Description |
Group members | Can create and view group content and view group members. |
Group managers | These members have the same permissions that members have, but additionally can manage the group. |
Group owners | These members have the same permissions as a manager, but can also control group settings, add new members, modify the group theme, create new application instances within the group, and modify role permissions inside the group. |