What can user groups be used for?

[ondrej]

@roemer

Can these users then have an internal private communication thread

Hello there @roemer!

Yes they can. You will have to create a category and then select the group to create/reply/see

This is explained by the link below

Understanding groups and category permissions (security settings)

See this video tutorial for an example of how to use these features: Create a private category with limited access for a certain group The Security tab on the category edit page is used to control both the visibility of categories and what users can do in a category. This is done by defining an access list of groups that associate a group name with an access level. The default permission for a new category is that the group everyone can Create/Reply/See. This means that a…

@roemer

overview for which purposes the user groups can be used

Groups can be used for a wide range of things from generally sorting users to to category security levels etc.