How to create user groups

User groups

User groups let you sort your members into groups, and choose which groups can open each section of your app.

Install User groups

In the Extensions Store, search for User groups… It's free with the Pro plan, and available from the Premium plan. Click Add.

Your user list gets a Groups button, and a Group column.

Create groups

Every member is in the Default group.

Click New group, name it, and add it… here, Contributors and Photographers.

Edit renames or deletes a group.

Add members to groups

Open a member and choose their groups… a member can be in several.

To group several members at once, tick them and use Move to: it replaces their groups.

The list shows each member's groups… and a group in the menu filters it.

Import and export

When you import members from a CSV file, you can put them all straight into one of your groups… and export the members of any group, right from the Groups menu.

Reserve a section

In Community, Public/Private, choose who opens what.

Open your app to everyone… close the section you want to reserve… and pick its groups. All groups means any member who signed in.

Then save.

The same choice is in each section's settings.

What members see

Write the message members outside the group get, in Settings, Registration process.

Switch this on, and each new group gets into the sections you already reserved.

In your app, a member outside the group gets your message… and a contributor opens the section.

Careful: if your login screen has Skip, visitors who tap it open your reserved sections too.

Push to a group

Your groups also target your push notifications: in Notification, Send, choose Target, then pick the groups you want to reach, under Users.

Publish

Your restrictions reach your app once you publish it, with Publish my project.