Managed Groups

Managed Groups is a lightweight, top-down approach to grouping that relies upon complete administrative control of group creation and membership. Many sites use grouping functionality to create autonomous, flexible, peer-managed sub-communities within the site; in these cases Organic Groups is ideal. However, other sites require top-down approaches to administration and management, wherein user creation and management of groups must be carefully managed by the administrator; in these cases Managed Groups may be more appropriate. As such, Managed Groups is not in competition with Organic Groups, but, rather, is a fundamentally different way of implementing content and user grouping that is essential for many types of sites.

The Managed Groups module allows the administrator to:

• Create groups;
• Assign node types to be managed by the module;
• Assign members to groups;
• Assign content to groups;
• Promote group administrators;
• Manage memberships based upon internal and external login names;
• Manage orphan content and members.

Group members may:

• View content in the group;
• Edit their own content in the group;
• Create content in the group.

Group administrators may:

• Delete content in the group;
• Update content in the group.

Managed Groups is built for Drupal 7.