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We have 3 membership levels: Free, Select, & Premier

We are trying to setup the Group Functionality so that we can "assign" members, regardless of level to a group OR groups.

Reading the help text and the blog I'm more confused than ever. Is this possible?

We need to maintain the member at the 3 levels as that controls their fee payments.

The groups we're setting up would be for "Special Interests" and would enable us to provide better service to different areas of our team.

Lastly, we would want to appoint an administrator or moderator to each group but we don't want them to have access to the member's profile, payment information, etc. just ability to moderate forum comments or have a page "assigned" to them that they can edit for the group.

WA, please tell me this is possible! It will really help our group to grow.

Thanks,
Ed

Members in a group can only belong to the same group membership level, and it is not possible for a member to belong to more than one level. Here is how the group level works: Each group pays the same membership fee (regardless of the size of the group) and everything else is exactly the same across all members (fields, renewal date etc.) . Since the group admin is probably paying for the whole group he/she pretty much has access to all the details about members he/she brings into the group. This means those who want to join an existing group cannot do so by themselves, only group / site admin can put new members into existing groups. However, anyone can start his/her own group by applying / switching to the group membership level, making it possible to create many different groups within the same group membership level. To leave the group a group member would have to switch to any other membership level.

Hope this clears things out, and let me know if you require further clarification.

 

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Jim Sympathy, Fluid Apricot