Groups

From Flux Developer Portal

flux Groups allows Community Members with common interest areas to interact more intimately about content they care about, and create their own identity within a Community.

Contents 1 Group Options (part of Community Settings) 2 Group Features 3 How do I enable Groups on my community? 4 How do I create Groups on my community? 5 How do I manage Groups on my community? 6 How do I change Group logo & banner? 7 How do my members create Groups on my community? 8 How do I modify Group templates on my community? 9 How can I customize Group modules? 10 FML calls available for Groups modules 11 DAAPI activity links available for Group members

Group Options (part of Community Settings)

• Who can create Groups – choose to allow any Community Member to create a Group and be a Group Admin, or keep control by only allowing Groups to be created by you, as Community Admin
• Upload your own default logo and banners for Groups on your community; Group Admins can replace defaults with custom images.
• All Group options are editable via your Community Manager > Community Settings

Group Features

• Any Member can join a Group, once created. Coming soon, we’ll offer an invite-only feature for Groups on an individual basis.
• Groups live within a Community, and inherit the “look and feel” of their parent Community
• Group Members can share content with the Group; items that are shared are then available in Group Photo, Link and Video collections
• Group Members can create Discussion Threads

How do I enable Groups on my community?

• Visit “Edit Community Settings,” to change Group Options.
• To allow any Community Member to create Groups on your Community, the “Any Community Member” radio button. If you prefer to be the only one select creating Groups on your community, leave the radio button set to “Admin Only.”
• You can also update the flux default graphics for Group logos (70x70, visible on Groups Hub and Category pages) and header graphic (590x100, visible on pages within Group.
• Next, create Categories for Groups within your community by visiting “Manage Categories”
• Create and manage Group categories, just as you do for all other content categories:
• Because we are in beta mode, the final step for enabling Groups is to manually add a link to the Groups “hub” page on your community.
• Visit the “Edit Navigation Links” control in the “Customize column of your Community Manager. Add a navigation link to the Groups Hub on your community by creating a link to [COMMUNITY_DOMAIN]/content/group/groups.aspx

How do I create Groups on my community?

• As an Admin, you have the right to create Groups by default. To create a Group, just visit any of the following pages and click “Create Group”:
  • Groups Hub: [COMMUNITY_DOMAIN]/content/group/groups.aspx
  • Group Category: [COMMUNITY_DOMAIN]/Content/Group/GroupCategories.aspx

NOTE: If you’ve set Group Options so that any Member can create Groups, the “Create Group” link on these pages will be available to them as well.

• • Manage Groups: [COMMUNITY_DOMAIN]/AdminSite/ManageGroups.aspx
• This will take you to the “Create Group” form

NOTE: Group Name & URL are required; all other fields are optional

• Group Admins can always update the details entered on this form by clicking “Edit Group Details” from the Group homepage.

How do I manage Groups on my community?

• To manage existing Groups as a Community Admin, visit the “Manage Groups” link in the “Moderate” column of your Community Manager:
• From here, you can review all Groups in your Community. You can edit, delete, or re-order Groups – which affects display on your Groups Hub page.

How do I change Group logo & banner?

• Group Logo (70x70) is visible when searching or browsing Group Categories. Group Header (590x100) is visible on each page of the Group. Accepted image types are GIF, JPG, and PNG.
• As a Community Admin, you can update the default graphics for all Groups on your Community by visiting “Group Options” via the “Community Settings” section of your Community Manager, or by or by uploading graphics via the “edit groups details” page at any time
• Group Admins can override your Community’s default Group logo and banner for their Group when they create the Group, or by clicking “Edit Group Details” at any time.
• Hitting “Reset” links will erase uploaded graphics and revert to the flux-wide defaults (shown above.)

How do my members create Groups on my community?

• Once you’ve enabled Members to create Groups on your Community via “Group Options” in the “Community Settings” section of your Community Manager, all Community Members will see the “Create Group” link on Groups Hub and Category pages.
• This will bring them to the “Create Group” form. All other steps are identical to the Admin Group creation process described above.
• Once a Group is created, Group Admins – as well as Community Admins - can edit Group details or review Group Members via the “Admin Toolbar” available above the Group Masthead on each Group page.

 

How do I modify Group templates on my community?

• As Community Admin, you have “Edit” rights for Group pages, just as you do on many other pages within your Community. Simply click “Edit Mode” when logged in as Community Manager to access editing mode. In this mode, you can add, remove, move, or edit modules (more on editing below). You can also add Custom Modules.
• IMPORTANT! Keep in mind that all Groups on your Community share the same page template. This means that any changes you make on a Group page affect all corresponding pages in all Groups on your Community.

 

How can I customize Group modules?

• As stated above, you can also edit the modules on Group pages, when in editing mode. Again, keep in mind that any changes you make will affect all Groups on your Community.
• To customize, click the “Edit Mode” button on the upper left corner of any Groups page.
• You will see a toolbar for each Module. Click “Edit” in the Module toolbar to change module settings or edit the core FML code that generates the module. For more info on FML calls and how to work with them, please visit http://developer.flux.com

FML calls available for Groups modules

DAAPI activity links available for Group members