ZLDNN Group

Main Features

A group has:

• Announcements: members of the group can post announcements.
• A simple Forum: members can post on a simple forum of the group.
• A photo gallery: members can upload photos into the group photo gallery.
• Member list: you can view members of the group and add friends. Owners and administrators can manage members of the group.
• Owners or administrators of the group can edit basic information of the group.

Group Members:

• The user who creates the group is the owner of that group.
• The owner can assign administrators to help manage the group.
• Owners and administrators can assign officials for the group.
• A member can invite other users to join the group.
• If the group is setup as private, almembers must first be approved.

Group management:

• DNN Administrators can define types and subtypes of groups.
• DNN Administrators can define who can create groups.
• Authorized users can create their own group.
• A group can be marked as public or private – a Group can be changed from public to private and vice versa.
• Users can join a public group and can be invited by their friends to join a private group.
• A group can have forum, announcement and photo gallery. Members can post on the forum and post announcements. Members also can upload photos.

Group Photos

• Members can upload photos to the group gallery.
• DNN Administrators can set a limit for the number of photos or gallery space.
• Photos can be stored on Amazon’s S3 service.
• Members can tag photos.
• The photos can be resized when uploading to a DNN Administrator set width.

Group Actions

• Actions such as join group, create group and leave group wilbe recorded.
• The actions in a group can be shown in ZLDNN Action.
• Action of the current user in groups can be shown in ZLDNN Action.
• Recent Active groups can be shown in the Group Recent Activity sub module.

Tokens and Template

• All modules of the Group support templating.
• You can define your custom templates in the module settings.
• The default templates are stored in the resource files so you can modify them easily.
• It supports pass time style date format.

Email Notification

• You can set Email Notification for new forum topic, new post of forum topic and new comments for photo.
• You can define the template of Email Notification.
• You can define the sender address of Email Notification.

Easy set up, Easy use

• The set up feature of the Group can help you to set up the modules easily.
• You can also set up the modules manually.

Integrate with Social Modules

• The groups module can work alone or with Smart Thinker’s SmartSociamodule. 
• In the Group package, there are ZLDNN User Profile, ZLDNN Friends and ZLDNN Action. They allow you to build your own community web site.
• All modules of the Group expose user id, display name and user name with tokens. Those tokens can help you to link to user profile page of the SociaModules.