Groups

Whether your organization runs informal groups that cross units, and whether people from outside it may join them.

Turn groups on or off

Check or uncheck Run informal groups.
Before you save, read what turning them off would hide.
Press Save changes on the bar at the foot of the page, or Discard to leave things as they were.

Then: On, anyone who can post at a unit can start a group there, such as a study group or an outreach team, and only its members see its wall. Off, every group is hidden, and guests are signed out. Nothing is deleted: it all comes back when you turn groups on again.

Let people from outside join with a code

Make sure Run informal groups is checked: the second switch works only under it.
Check Let people outside your organization join.
Press Save changes.

Then: Group leaders can give out a join code or a QR poster. Somebody who uses it creates an account and waits in a queue for a leader to admit them. A guest holds no seat, so they see the walls of their groups and nothing else: no people, no units, no figures.

Who: Turning this on is recorded in the audit log as a warning, because from then on accounts are made for people nobody in your organization invited.

Daniel's organization runs a course open to people who are not members yet. Daniel lets outsiders join, and the course's leader puts the group's QR poster on the welcome table; each person who scans it waits until the leader admits them.

If nobody can find groups

Check whether Run informal groups is checked here.
If it is, check that Teams & groups is in your organization's plan and switched on in Settings › Features › Modules.

Only an organization-wide role that changes settings, such as the Owner or an Admin, can change these switches. The page opens only for those who hold Change organization settings: anybody else who types its address is told it is set up by the organization's Owners and Admins. Somebody who holds it at a unit, not across the organization, sees both switches grayed out.