Group setup is now managed in the Manage group panel on the group home page.
- Navigate to the desired group.
- Mouse over Management.
- Click Manage group. The Manage group panel appears.
- Click Group Options. The options appear. (The following screen capture doesn't show the entire panel.)
- Fill in the following fields or select from the choices:
- Name - Name of the group. Choose a short but descriptive name.
- Group avatar - An image that represents the group. If you don't upload one, the default avatar is used.
- URL - Letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores are allowed. (No whitespaces.) If you don't fill in this field, Telligent Community Server will fill in the group name using underscores for spaces.
- Description - The description is displayed below the group name. You are not allowed to use HTML markup. A typical use of the group description is to elaborate on the group name. This setting is optional.
Group privacy
- - Select the desired type. After you create the group, you can change this group privacy type, but
doing so will reset any custom permissions that were set up in each application and apply the default permissions for the built-in group type.This includes roles added as group members.
- Changing group type is not something Telligent recommends.
- Joinless - Membership is not tracked. Group permissions are managed using site-level roles. Joinless groups are managed by system 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) - Everyone can read your group, it is listed publicly, and users must be approved before becoming 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.
- Parent group - Group where the group is located (such as Site Root). A different group is preferred.
- Enable contact form - Enables the Contact owners option for the Group - Links widget "Contact owners" button.
- Enable Messages - Enables group members to create new status messages on the Quick Post widget. This option is enabled by default when you create the group.
See also Create a subgroup from the Manage Sub-groups panel; Create an application from the Manage Group panel; create group structure; add, invite, or remove a group member, and group membership types and permissions.