Social Groups (XenForo 2.x.x) 3.6.1

This add-on has excellent features and friendly UI. It is compatible with most versions of XenForo (2.0.x).


Key features:

• Ability to create unlimited categories and nested categories for groups.
• Ability to create unlimited custom fields for each category. Custom fields then will be shown in group details.
• Show custom field position, data types, create PHP callback for Fields,
• Ability to group members and easily manage member roles and permissions in group.
• Events. Each group has ability to create their own events.
• Sub Forums.
• Avatar supported. Each group has ability to easily upload their avatar
• Cover photos supported. Each group has ability to easily upload their cover
• Display statistics for each groups.
• Much more....

Group Category: many options available to manage groups:

• Required minimum tags which groups must be provide.
• Default set group privacy, only apply to newly created groups.
• Manage user group permissions to create groups in categories.
• Manage user group permissions to view groups inside the category.

Group Fields:

• Create unlimited custom fields

Member Roles: manage member roles in each group

• Easy to create more roles
• Easy to manage group member roles.
• Powerful options to control member permissions inside the group.

Events:

• Ability to attach files when creating events.
• Ability to post comments in events.
• Intelligent notifications: new events created, new comments posted, …
• Easy to filter events: ongoing events, upcoming events and past event.
• Friendly layouts with 2 options available: List or Calendar,
• Integrate with Google Map.

Gallery and Media: (This options required third-party add-ons)

• Upcoming feature…

Group Forums: Fully integrate with XenForo forums.

• Each group will have their own forum to post their own threads and use XenForo sub-forums to archive these threads. These threads are shown to the public or not depending on group Privacy options.
• Archive all groups forums to single XenForo node.

Group Privacy: Public, Closed and Secret. Each privacy option has its own settings.

• Public Group:
  • Anyone can see the group
  • Anyone can see contents in the group
  • Shown in the group list
• Closed Group:
  • Anyone can see the group
  • Only members can see contents in the group
  • Shown in the group list
• Secret Group:
  • Only members and authorized users (set in User Group Permissions) can see the group and its content
  • Only authorized users (set in User Group Permissions) can create Secret Groups

Group invitations:

• Send an invitation: Only Public and Closed Groups are supported. Each invitation sent, user will be received a notification. User can easily manage the invitations they received from Invited Groups page.
• Add users to group: Only Secret Groups are supported. This feature allows authorized members to add an user to the group without their permission.

Notification system:

• Notification Alerts can be turned on/off. Each member has ability to choose either Forum Alerts or Email. You can find this feature in group navigation.
• Status Alerts. If this option is enabled, you will received notifications when a status posted in newsfeeds. This option only works when notification alerts are on.

Other features:

• Ability to set one or more groups become Featured Groups
• Ability to transfer ownership to another user
• Much more….