Group
Key point: A working space that allows users to collaborate on documents and exchange comments.

A key PageSeeder concept, the group restricts access to content, such as documents and comments, to a list of members.

Within the group, members can have different levels of permission (functionality), but all members see the same content. In other words, there are no additional privacy settings inside a group, except that guest members cannot see the list of members for the group.

Groups belong to a project and inherit many characteristics, such as labels, document templates and publish scripts from the project.

Group title

The title is a user-friendly name to display in the user interface. This is useful if the group name contains abbreviations, acronyms or underscores. The title can include punctuation and spaces to describe the group. It’s not recommended to use hyphens in group titles.

  • Restrict the length to 100 characters. 

The title is optional and if left empty, the group name is then displayed.

Group name

The Name field auto-fills with the group title, but it can be changed.

The “URL” is the fundamental building block of PageSeeder. To avoid inconsistent, ambiguous or non-compliant URLs, groups must be named according to the following conventions:

  • A group name can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, underscore (_) or tilde (~).
  • The name of the group must be a unique filename within the project.
  • Restrict the length of the project + group name to 60 characters (see following tip).
  • It cannot be a reserved word.

Also, by default, the [project-group] string is part of the group email address which means these additional constraints apply:

  • Names cannot contain any character prohibited in an email address.
  • No project + group name can end with ‘-silent’ or contain a double hyphen ‘--’ because these two strings are reserved for PageSeeder email switches.

When creating groups, the name you use is the short name of the group. We ask for the short name because it’s created within the project.

The full name of the group includes the name of its parent project, [project]-[group] and is used in URLs and email addresses. The full name of the group cannot exceed 60 characters.

Group description

A short description is required and is often displayed as a subtitle of the group in different parts of the user interface and in emails. Characters are limited to 250.