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Show all Group Types in main Groups menu

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By: amar on 3.02.11 in -Ideas and Suggestions-

To view a particular group, it's always seemed overly convoluted to have to:

  1. First click the "Groups" in the menu bar.
  2. Then select "View All" from the "Groups by Group Type" menu item.
  3. Then click on the desired group type tab from the "All Groups" screen.
  4. Then find and click on the group you're interested in (which might involve several more clicks to advance to the page it's on).
Since there are only 3 different group types + "Spans of Care" & "All", why not just list all them all under the "Groups by Group Type" submenu, rather than giving a single "View All" option?? (If there's only one option, then why even have the "Groups by Group Type" heading??)

It would also be nice if the groups were presented in a scrolling list (rather than having to page through them, 20 at a time), and if groups could be organized hierarchically, with the ability to set permissions set at the "folder" level.

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Comments (6)

David Johnson said on 3.22.11

It would speed up the process of managing people lists to be able to select group type as Amar has suggested. I would be very happy if a hyperlink to each group type was placed under "view all"

lori.myers said on 4.19.11

I agree, and I commented something to this effect the same day it was rolled out new.

David Jones said on 12.08.11

We are considering using Infellowship for our small groups.  I am currently evaluating the features of Infellowship for small group management.

Is there a way to RESTRICT the groups that show up on the "Find A Group" page?  As it is now, ALL group types appear in the search results.  We would like to limit the results to our "Adult Small Group" type.

ddoell said on 12.08.11

David - there is a way to limit the results by unchecking the box: this group is searchable under the edit group details area of each group.

A Group Type can be set up so that all groups created using that particular group type are unsearchable. This is done under Properties when setting up the group type.

ddoell said on 12.08.11

I agree with amar's suggestion!!

Dave Moore said on 1.23.12

I've found one way around this until F1 ads this to their Groups Menu...

Edit the Admin > Church News and Announcements page and create hyperlinks to whatever "Groups Search Results Page" that gets used commonly. I've set up our one to look like this:

Shortcut links:
All Group types2012 AM G.Groups2012 PM G.Groups2012 UC G.Groups
Kids Ministry Classes and TeamsYouth Ministry Classes and Teams
All People ListsAll Temporary Lists

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