Groups¶

You can organize app users into groups. Groups have their own Activity Feed, their own permissions and be a useful alternative to Roles, depending on how you model your data. Groups were originaly designed to emulate Facebook Groups, so they will tend to function about the same way Facebook Groups would.

Groups are hierarchical. Every member of the group /groups/california/san-francisco is also a member of the group /groups/california.

Groups are also a great way to model things such a topic subscriptions. For example, you could allow people to subscribe (i.e. become a member of the group and be alerted via Activities) to /groups/memes/dogs/doge or subscribe to all /groups/memes/dogs

General properties¶

Property	Type	Description
uuid	UUID	Group’s unique entity ID
type	string	Type of entity, in this case “user”
created	long	UNIX timestamp of entity creation
modified	long	UNIX timestamp of entity modification
path	string	Valid slash-delimited group path (mandatory)
title	string	Display name

Set properties¶

Set	Type	Description
connections	string	Set of connection types (e.g., likes)
rolenames	string	Set of roles assigned to a group
credentials	string	Set of group credentials

Collections¶

Collection	Type	Description
users	user	Collection of users in the group
activities	activity	Collection of activities a user has performed
feed	activity	Inbox of activity notifications a group has received
roles	role	Set of roles to which a group belongs