"Groups" organized by group instead of by User

Dzynz
Dzynz
@dzynz
9 years ago
5 posts
I'm working on a collaborative site and I bought and installed the Groups and Group Pages modules. I want certain people to build their own groups for the site, not for the user, and have others collaborate on that topic. My problem is, the user's name is the top and biggest part of the page, and I would rather the group name be the highlight. I understand the heirarchy and folder structure, but I don't want to highlight the person. I'd rather it be more the group was its own subfolder to the site instead of the subfolder to the user who created it.

For example: The breadcrumb is one way to easily see what's going on.
What I see now is:
Admin >> Groups >> Test Group

What I'd rather see is:
Groups >> Test Group >> Admin

So that the Admin is logged into the group, not the members logging into the Admin's profile to see the group. Hopefully this makes sense.

If there's already a way to tweak this - I'm all ears!!
updated by @dzynz: 11/23/16 05:51:14PM
michael
@michael
9 years ago
7,799 posts
Jamroom is very profile centric, profiles are the canonical location for any item, like right now you are writing in the FORUM on the "The Jamroom Network" profile.

"The Jamroom Network" is a profile we use for the system related stuff, I have my own profile too here @michael

It would be weird to have the forum for the jamroom.net system found at jamroom.net/michael/forum because that is on a personal profile. Thats why a separate profile was created "The Jamroom network" and all system wide modules like the forum put in there. The url then becomes jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum ( which is where we are now. )

The USER is the person looking at the screen, the PROFILE is the location where items are uploaded to. One user can have as many profiles as the admin user allows them to.

For you you should create either create a profile to house all your groups or create a profile per group then link whichever users you want to that profile.

eg: a profile to house all your groups
your-site.com/groups/test-group
your-site.com/groups/cats
your-site.com/groups/dogs
your-site.com/groups/gophers

eg: a profile per group
your-site.com/test-group/group
your-site.com/cats/grooming-group
your-site.com/dogs/training-group
your-site.com/gophers/movie-group

Related Docs:

Doc: "Concepts the admin user needs to know"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/2167/concepts-the-admin-user-needs-to-know

Docs: Jamroom Admin Handbook: Table of Contents
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook

Docs: "Link User Accounts ( multiple profiles )"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-admin-handbook/3481/link-user-accounts-multiple-profiles
Dzynz
Dzynz
@dzynz
9 years ago
5 posts
"Thats why a separate profile was created "The Jamroom network" and all system wide modules like the forum put in there."

How?

I created another profile as Admin, but I can't seem to figure out how others can start their own group on their own in this new profile. I don't intend on manually linking everyone who ever signs up on the back-end, or create them for others. That's just tedious and makes everyone rely on me to keep up.

I looked at the Docs. Haven't quite found the answer yet.
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,335 posts
Everything in Jamroom needs to be owned by a profile, including groups so that breadcrumb structure is inherent and cannot be changed. However, what I think you need to do is to build a site page that just lists groups created by the collaborative profiles. Profile names needn't then be prominent on the page but you could still then have group create and update buttons on that page, only visible to those profiles, so that that page would still be the focus of all the collaborators.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

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