Community Group Essentials community-group-essentials

The community groups feature is the ability for a subcommunity to be dynamically created within a community site by authorized users from the publish and author environments.

As of Communities feature pack 1, it is possible for groups to be nested within other groups.

Essentials for Client-Side essentials-for-client-side

Community Groups Member List community-groups-member-list

Community Groups community-groups

Essentials for Server-Side essentials-for-server-side

Groups Function groups-function

A community site structure that includes a Groups function supports the creation of new community groups from the publish and author environments. The community group created includes a community groups member list component that lists the members of the group.

One or more community group templates, which provide the design of the community group pages, can be configured for the Groups function. This is true when the function is being added to a community site template or nested within a community group template.

The inclusion of multiple community group templates results in a choice. That is, the choice of design being presented to the authorized user at the time that a community group is created for the community site. See the section on community groups for authors.

Nested Groups nested-groups

As of Communities FP1, it is possible for a Groups function to be included within a group template, thus allowing for nested groups (subcommunities).

When a community site or group template includes the Groups function, it is possible to:

When creating a group in the author environment, it is necessary to first publish the community site, and then to publish the group. Publishing the community site publishes the pages of the group, without creating the subcommunity’s member groups to which ACLs are set. Thus, a restricted (secret) group may be visible until the group is explicitly published.

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