Creating subforums in groups

In addition, you want also for Open Groups to set a subforum on public or private depending on the content that you want to share with the world. e.g: Where Blogs is public and introduce yourself and chat privately. No community or group members can see the subforums, but cannot access them. This gives you the opportunity to semi-publicize groups in order to attract new members or to share certain content as a group with the outside world. 

Hi @Moller Toma, thanks for your idea.

• I understand the need to better organize the content within a group to differentiate the introduction topics from the rest of the content
• However, having a public and a private subforum within a group could be a bit confusing. Maybe it's about making the groups more appealing to join by showing more information before joining?  And making it explicit the kind of content could be found there?

What are your thoughts?

It's more about sharing certain content as a group with the outside world to specific target groups, e.g. Thinkwise Platform orientated Independent Software Vendors (ISV) want to enthuse other ISVs who are not yet customers with certain content. But ISV user group-specific issues are only available when you are a member of the group. Because as a group you don't want to share all ISV specifics with the whole world, but you do want to inspire a certain group to also become a Thinkwise Platform ISV by making certain content / sub-forums available. 

Use Case:

Not being able to categorise information in the group module limits the business case for users. Example: We now want to create a new group for our partners, in which we share content that is important to them in sales. We cannot share the information we have in a group without being able to categorise it properly. It''s just weird when different content is mixed together. Because of this, we cannot use the group module and we are forced to misuse subforums in our community. Also because in the Knowledge Base it is not possible to subscribe to categories. 

I saw that an idea was created for being able to subscribe to Knowledge Base articles. 

• Subscribe to Knowledge Base category (parent, sub) to receive new articles posted in it Open
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I would like to have possibility to build several groups, groups under categories. With this solution it is easier to outline the community structure, mostly groups arent related with each other so why to have them in one place and one place only.

Today situation is that all the groups are in one place / groups are one “category” today.

This feels like a similar idea to this one I’ve suggested:

• Create Content Categories in Groups Open
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