Community Groups

IMPORTANT: Membership User Groups and Community Groups are different concepts. Membership User Groups allow an administrator to create a group of membership users, thereby reducing the effort required to assign identical permissions to many users. See Membership User Groups. Community Groups are explained below.

Community groups are another aspect of a community sites. Group members can easily meet people with similar interests, for example, car racing.

Groups have features and functions similar to users. A community group can have a Message Board, Discussion Board, maintain a membership list, and keep a group journal. You can manage community groups from the Web site or the Workarea.

You can assign a taxonomy category to community groups. This lets users browse and search for groups by category. In addition, you can assign Tags to a community group. This allows users to find the group when searching by tag name.

This section also contains the following topics.

Community Groups in the Workarea

Community Group Server Controls