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justin_tighe-hotmail - 7/1/2009 6:33:25 PM

Groups and child groups

I am new to the CMS development and I am trying to get a feel for what it can and cannot do.

Can the groups be related to each other as in a parent- child relationship. I want to create a parent group with child groups that no profile who is not a member of the parent group can see. Can this be created through business logic (presumably this would involve adding some new tables to the CMS database) or is it a feature of the groups?

Any examples would be appreciated

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kentico_helenag - 7/9/2009 5:57:43 AM

RE:Groups and child groups

Hello,

could you please tell us more details?

1. What would ensure the relationship of parent group – child group?
2. What about membership? When a user join the child group will he/she a member of parent group?
3. Will be the “property” (files, pages) of parent group accessible for members of children group? In opposite, will not the members of parent group see the “property” of children group?

Unfortunately, we have not got this functionality involved in an out-of-box solution but we could try to find a workaround and/or consider it as a new feature to one of next versions. But we would need to understand your purposes exactly.
Thank you in advance for your reply.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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tri.hoang-connectcorp - 4/26/2011 4:30:23 PM

RE:Groups and child groups

Hi,

I'm looking into the same feature as this for my site.

Basically, what I need is a community that has multiple groups. Each group has its own forum, blog, media library, and can also have children groups.

A user join a group should also be a member of this group's children group. However, if a user joins a child group, he is only a member of this child group. He can only participate in this child group.

Please let me know if this functionality is currently available, or there is a workaround for this.

Thank you in advance for your reply.

Tri Hoang

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kentico_helenag - 4/27/2011 12:48:29 PM

RE:Groups and child groups

Hi all,

We are considering it to the next versions.

In this case, I would recommend you storing the relationships for groups (the main group and its sub-groups identified by GroupID) in a custom table. Then you could add a custom scheduled task (or add the functionality to web parts which allows to join the group) which will add the user to all the children groups according relationships in your custom table.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova