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Introduction
To maximize engagement and create a welcoming environment for all members, setting up community groups that reflect the interests, needs, and goals of your members is crucial. These groups can be structured in various ways to encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing, and networking.
NOTE: If your Comunity is integrated with GrowthZone, you will create your list/committees in GrowthZone and sync those to Community. Once synched start at step 6 in the instructions below. See Enabling "Community Interaction" for a list of members for more information. Groups that you create directly in Community do NOT sync back to GrowthZone.
Add Groups
- Click the gear icon in the header bar.
- In the left hand navigation panel, click Community in the Content section. The preview screen will display your current groups.
Caption - Click New Group.
- On the Create a new group screen configure the following:
- Title: Provide a descriptive name for your group (up to 90 characters)
- Slug: This is a unique URL-freindly identifier for the group (limited to 50 characters, no spaces, special characters, or capital letters)
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- Click Create.
- Additional formatting options are now displayed. Configure the following:
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Preview Text: Briefly describe the group (78 characters max).
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Body: The main content or description of the group, supporting text, lists, images, videos, and links.
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Release Date: Specify when the group should become visible.
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End Date: Set the date and time when the group should no longer be active.
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Choose Privacy options.
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Allow Join/Leave Group: enable this option if members should be able to join or leave the group. OR.. If the group is set to private the option will display
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Allow Request To Join/Leave Group
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List Image: The recommended size is 800 x 450 px for display in rotators, grids, or list modules.
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Banner Image: The recommended size is 1440 × 461 px for prominent display on the group's page.
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Tags: N/A at this time.
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Admins: Designate group administrators.
Edit a Group
Follow the step below to access and edit a group:
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Click the gear icon in the header bar.
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Click Community in the left-hand navigation bar.
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Click the desired group.
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Make the needed changes.
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Click Save.
Group Meeting Display at the Global Level
To protect the privacy of group activity, meetings within Secret or Private groups will not be displayed at the global level in the schedule, rotator, or grid modules. Public group meetings will continue to appear at the global level.
- An example of this is shown in the image below. The schedule on the left shows the global level list of sessions and meetings. The schedule in the top right shows the schedule for a public group. The schedule in the middle right shows the schedule for a private group. The schedule in the lower right shows the schedule for a secret group. You should notice the meeting from the public group is showing on the global schedule; however, the meetings from the private and secret groups are not.
