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November 26, 2021
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Hidden groups now available

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  • November 26, 2021
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Hidden groups now available

We are pleased to announce that hidden groups are now available! Thank you @justine.rae for suggesting the following idea :nerd:

This feature is available for customers on the inSided Business Package and above.

 

What are hidden groups?

Hidden group are groups that are only visible to its members. Only personally invited users can see and join a hidden group. Only the members of a hidden group can see its content. 

Hidden groups are the most secure group type compared to public and private groups. They can be used to discuss topics that should be seen only by selected users. You should create a hidden group if you want only specific users to know the existence of that group and see the content within the group.

You can invite users to become members of hidden groups by personally inviting them by email. 

 

With hidden groups you can:

  • Have a specific group for VIP, Super users, partners where they can discuss freely
  • Have a group to discuss Beta features
  • Have groups for the all users of a same company

 

How to start using hidden groups?

Start by reading this article that explains the difference between the different group types to decide what group type fit the most your use case.

Except for the differences of visibility and invite settings, hidden groups work very similarly to public and private groups. Listed below are a few articles to get started:

As always, please let us know if you have any additional questions or feedback.

13 replies

erin.brisson
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January 6, 2022

Can you create an event for a Hidden group? It looks like only the private groups are showing as options to select and not my hidden one.

Erin
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January 10, 2022

Hello @erin.brisson publishing events in hidden groups is currently not available. De didn't prioritised it as we wanted to improve some other UI elements in the events module before then. This is something we will at some point, at this time I am not sure when. I can recommend creating an idea for it to help get this request some visibility. 

Thanks!

Casstastr0phee
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April 11, 2022

Thanks @erin.brisson for creating the idea for hidden group events: 
 

 

+1 that we think this would be super impactful for our Community, as we have many new and/or beta groups not ready to reveal publicly yet, so we don’t want to field requests to join, but want to house events for existing members of those hidden groups. 

I follow Julian's nose, it always knows