Groups profiles

Understand the basics

As a participant, you might want to create a user group for you association, your company, your club, etc. If an administrator verifies that you are entitled to represent this group, then you are able to participate in the instance in the name of the group.

The group creation option is only available when groups are enabled for the organization. You can ask an administrator of the platform or enable it from the Configuration panel.

Create a group

To create a group, click the "Create group" button in your public profile.

Table 1. Group creation form
Field	Type	Description
Name	Required	Name of the organization, association, collective, group, etc.
Nickname	Required	Nickname of the organization, association, collective, group, etc. Do not use spaces nor accents.
Email	Required	Email of your organization, association, collective, group, etc.
Avatar	Optional	Avatar of your organization, that is displayed as a user avatar. Can be a logo, a picture, etc.
About	Optional	More information about your organization. This is publicly displayed on the user group profile page.
Document number	Optional	Fill this field if you want an administrator to verify the authenticity of your user group.
Phone	Optional	Fill this field if you want an administrator to be able to call someone in your organization to verify the authenticity of the user group.

The user group is visible on the platform as soon as you create it. After its creation, you are redirected to the user group profile page.

User groups profiles pages display:

Members: Members of the groups, and who are the administrators.
Badges: User group badges.
Followers: Participants can also follow user groups.

Manage a group

After a group has been created, it’s possible to invite participants to become members of the group. After a participant has accepted to be part of this group then they can become an admin.

The actions that can be done by a user group administrator are:

Edit group profile
Manage members
Manage admins
Invite participant
Leave group

Manage members

On this page, you can accept or refuse participants requests to join your group, but also promote group members to administrators or remove them from the group.

Manage administrators

On this page, you can only remove group administrator rights, but it won’t remove the participant from the group.

Invite participants

To invite a participant, they need to have an account on the platform. You can invite them with their nickname.

Then, they receive an invitation to join the group. They can accept it or not.

Conversations

You can also have Conversations as a group.

Participate as a group

For user group administrators to be able to participate as a group, an administrator of the instance must have verified it.

The interest of having an administrator verify the user group is that you can then participate to the platform as a group, and create debate, proposal, meetings, comments, etc.

Administrators of the user group can for example comment in the name of their group.

They can also choose to endorse a debate or a proposal in the name of their group and / or in their own name.