This is a great tool which enables you to use the powerful "Directory / Businesses Plugin" as "Groups" on your site. This Product Kit also bundles many popular extensions of "Directory / Businesses Plugin" to form a robust, feature-rich Groups system. Groups can even be easily imported from the SE Groups Plugin enabling you to easily and quickly upgrade the Groups on your website to more advanced, engaging and useful Groups. With this Product Kit, your also save on cost vis-a-vis ordering of individual extensions.
Discount: We're currently offering a great discount of $73 for setting up this new Groups Plugin on your website. This Product Kit will enable you to have the advanced features of Directory / Businesses Plugin and various "Extensions for Directory / Businesses Plugin" for the Groups on your site in just $199.
This is a great tool which enables you to use the powerful "Directory / Businesses Plugin" as "Groups" on your site. This Product Kit also bundles many popular extensions of "Directory / Businesses Plugin" to form a robust, feature-rich Groups system. Thus, along with the features of Businesses and its extensions for Groups on your site, you also get advanced Groups features.
With this tool, you can also easily import groups from the official SocialEngine Groups Plugin into the "Directory / Businesses Plugin" and provide advanced features of Directory / Businesses Plugin and its various Extensions to the Groups on your site. Thus, you can easily and quickly upgrade the Groups on your website to more advanced, engaging and useful Groups.
You can also easily replace the singular / plural titles of 'Business' to 'Group'.
Along with the features of Page and its extensions in this product kit, you will also get advanced Groups features (including Advanced Groups features) as mentioned below:
- Businesses from Directory / Businesses Plugin can be used as Groups to provide advanced features to the Groups on your site.
- Groups from official SocialEngine Groups Plugin can be easily imported without loosing any data.
- You can now have Vanity URLs for Groups on your site. URLs of Groups on your site can be made short and more human readable. These are easier for visitors to identify, remember and share. (by using our FREE Directory / Businesses - Short Business URL Extension)
- Settings to easily replace the singular / plural titles of 'Business' to 'Group'
- Group Admins functionality: Each group can have multiple Group Admins who can manage the group.
- "Group Members Only" Privacy: This privacy option can restrict: Viewing a Group, Commenting on a Group and posting various contents like Notes, Photos, Videos, etc in Groups (by using Extensions for Directory / Businesses Plugin) to Group members only.
- Group admins can mark certain members as "Highlighted" members.
- Joining a Group.
- Members Moderation: Group Admins can choose their prior approval to be required for membership to their groups.
- Group Membership Roles: Enables members to choose their membership type for the Groups they are member of.
- For the various Groups, Site Admin can create Group Membership Roles (like Managers, Staff, etc.) based on Group categories.
- Group Admins can also create other Roles for their groups. [Admin configurable]
- Members will be displayed on the basis of their Membership Roles on Group Profiles. Attractive Member Role based filtering of members available.
- Selected Site Admin created roles can have their own tabs on group profiles, displaying members belonging to them.
- Users can choose a membership role for groups that they join.
- Affiliation / Membership / Joining Date: Members can choose a date from which they are affiliated with the Group's Entity. Site admin can enable / disable this.
- Content Creation Notification: Members can receive notifications for content creation like Notes, Music, etc in joined Groups.
- Members can view, comment and create various contents like Notes, Music, Photos, etc (by using Extensions for Directory / Businesses Plugin), if respective privacies are "Group Members Only".
- Members can Invite their Friends to Groups.
- Members can Message all group members / particular member.
- Group Announcements:Group admins can post announcements for important news, event, advertisement, etc of their Groups. Additionally for each announcement:
- Choose start and end date
- Activate / deactivate
- WYSIWYG Editor for Announcements
- Group Admins can:
- What will members be called?: enables Group owners to decide what their Group members will be called. Ex: Dance Lovers, Hikers, Innovators, Music Lovers, etc.
- Group Members Moderation: Can allow members to immediately become a member of their Groups / wait till approval. Group admin approved members will be marked as Verified / Approved on their Member Profiles in the tab showing their joined Groups.
- Can decide who can invite other site members to their Groups.
- Can allow only Group members to View, Comment and create various contents like Notes, Music, Photos, etc (by using Extensions for Directory / Businesses Plugin) in their Groups.
- Group Cover Photo widget enables Group admins to choose a cover photo for their Groups. Group members' user profile photos can be shown, if cover photo is not updated. [Dependent on our "Directory / Businesses - Photo Albums Extension"]
- Widgetized Home & Browse pages for Group Members
- Activity Feed Integration: Attractive looking activity feeds are generated for becoming a member of a Group.
- Many Widgets and Administration settings
- This Product Kit contains all the widgets of "Directory / Businesses Plugin" and its Extensions. Additionally, it also contains some Groups related widgets:
- Business Profile Members: Displays the members of the Groups. Admin can choose to display all members or members based on their Roles.
- Joined / Owned Groups: Displays groups administered and joined by members on their profiles.
- Group Profile Announcements
- Group's Member of the Day
and more...
- Site admin can configure below settings to be available to the group admins and group members:
- Groups' singular / plural title
- Group members URL text
- Member roles
- Affiliation / joining date
- Group announcements
and more...
To know more about the advanced Group features, visit the below mentioned plugins and extensions available with this product kit:
- Directory / Businesses Plugin
Directory / Businesses plugin can be used on your site for endless purposes like: Groups, online directory, records, catalogs, listing products, places, books, recipes, pets, classifieds, services, archives, offerings, etc. It enables you to create rich, detailed listings and provides multiple tools for this.
- Directory / Businesses - Business Members Extension
Business Members Extension is a great tool which will enable you to use the powerful "Directory / Businesses Plugin" as "Groups" on your site. Users will be able to join these groups, invite their friends, choose their Membership Roles and Affiliation / Joining Dates, etc. Groups can be imported from the SE Groups Plugin.
- Free! Directory / Businesses - Short Business URL Extension
Short Business URL Extension enables URLs of Groups on your website to be made short and more human readable. Such URLs are easier for visitors to identify, remember and share. Short URLs make it easier for Group owners to direct others to their Groups on your site.
With this extension, Group URLs like: http://yoursite.com/groupitems/groupname can be changed to: http://yoursite.com/groupname. Site Admin can also ban offensive URLs.
- Directory / Businesses - Photo Albums Extension
Photo Albums Extension enables adding photos to Groups. Creating albums and adding photos is quick and easy. Lightbox AJAX viewer for photos (Theater Mode) provides great user experience. Along with all the flexibility, configuration options and attractive photo viewing experience that this albums extension provides, it is a great tool for adding and showcasing photos on Groups of your site.
Groups can upload a cover photo using this tool and group members can tag their friends in the photos uploaded to groups.
- Free! Directory / Businesses - Discussions Extension
Discussions Extension enables threaded discussion topics in Groups. With this extension, each Group gets a "Discussions" tab / section with a discussion forum allowing members to discuss and share information about the Group entity. This is also a very useful tool for Group owners to gather feedback and spread awareness about their Group entity.
- Directory / Businesses - Events Extension
Events Extension enables creating events for Groups. Events can be used by Groups for many purposes like product launches, sports matches, competitions, celebrations, etc.
- Directory / Businesses - Videos Extension
Videos Extension for enables adding videos to Groups. Creating videos is quick and easy. Videos can be added from multiple sources. Attractive way of video viewing ensures good user experience and enjoyment to users.
- Directory / Businesses - Documents Extension
Documents Extension brings the power of Documents / Scribd iPapers to Groups. It enables users to upload documents for Groups. Documents added to a group are showcased on its profile in its Documents tab/section. Documents can be used by groups for a variety of purposes like displaying restaurant menus, property designs, work portfolios, presentations, tutorials, reports, books, etc. Users can view, share, print, download documents, and comment on them. Highly configurable extension.
- Directory / Businesses - Notes Extension
Notes Extension enables adding notes to Groups. It gives a publishing tool to group admins (just like a blog). This allows group owners to generate content for their group to share more information and connect with their audience.
- Directory / Businesses - Polls Extension
Polls Extension for Directory / Businesses Plugin enables creation of polls in Groups. Users of your site and group owners can gather opinions and feedback within the Groups on your site. Members can create poll questions within groups which can be answered by visitors. The answers given by others for these polls are shown in attractive graphical manner.
- Free! Directory / Businesses - Contact Business Owners Extension
Contact Business Owners Extension enables you to quickly reach out to all the Admins of Groups on your site via 2 effective channels: Emails and Messages. Outgoing emails can be made rich and attractive to match your site's theme and brand identity. Messages can have media attachments. Such communication serves multiple purposes like sharing tips to more effectively use Groups on your website, introducing new features of Groups to your users, motivating users to keep their Groups updated and active on your website, and so on.
- Businesses as Groups - Product Kit Installation Service
After completion of your payment, and configuration of your license(s) for your plugin(s) from your Client Area, if you want us to install the products included in this kit on your site, then please initiate a Support Ticket from your SocialEngineAddOns Client Area and send us the following information of your site for the installation of the products included in this kit:
1) Site Admin details:
- URL
- Email
- Password
2) Site FTP details:
- Host
- Username
- Password
This service is normally completed in 12 to 24 hours.
Enhanced Business Features: We have included ALL the important Business features in our product kit, but you can also use any of the below mentioned extension (feature) to further enhance the Businesses on your site:
- Directory / Businesses - Inviter and Promotion Extension
Inviter and Promotion Extension enables group owners to invite their contacts, friends, fans and customers to their Group and increase its popularity. It provides effective tools to group owners to expand visitor base to their group. Users can securely import their contact lists / address books from popular email services and applications to invite their contacts to their Group.
- Directory / Businesses - Form Extension
Form Extension enables group owners to create a custom form on their Group and receive user responses for it. This extension can be very useful for various types of Groups. For example, hotels, agents, dealers & many other businesses could use this form to receive bookings from users. Such a form can also be used to receive user feedbacks, suggestions, requests, etc. The form is highly customizable and group admins can create any form fields of their choice.
- Directory / Businesses - Music Extension
Music Extension enables adding music to Groups. Multiple playlists with songs can be created in Groups and shared. Creating playlists is quick and easy. Attractive music player provides great user experience. Music player can be embedded on group profile or in group updates activity feed.
- Directory / Businesses - Badges Extension
Badges extension enables association and display of badges on groups. It can be used to specially mark groups as per your requirements. For example, groups can be marked as: "Premium", "Leader", "Expert", "Highly Recommended", "Community Approved", "Trusted", etc. Badges can thus also be used to help users in better identifying the type of group items they are looking for. They enhance the identity of Groups.
- Directory / Businesses - Offers Extension
Offers Extension enables adding offers to Groups. Offers can have useful information associated like Coupon Code, No. of Claims, Expiry Date, etc. Members can claim offers and this is very well integrated with activity feeds. Admin can mark certain offers as "Hot" to highlight them and each Group can have a Featured Offer. This is a great tool for adding and showcasing offers on Groups of your site.
- Directory / Businesses - Reviews and Ratings Extension
Reviews and Ratings Extension enables users to rate and write reviews for group items. The rating system is categorical and attractive. Nicely designed interface for seeing ratings and reviews provides good user experience.
- Directory / Businesses - Multiple Listings and Products Showcase Extension
Multiple Listings and Products Showcase Extension enables Group Owners to link / add / associate related Listings / Businesses to their Groups. Such listings / businesses will be displayed on the Group profiles, thus making the Groups more informative and useful. The ability to show their various listings, businesses, products, offerings, etc on their Groups will also motivate users to create more listings / businesses on your website, and keep their Groups updated.
- Directory / Businesses - Embeddable Badges, Like Box Extension
Embeddable Badges, Like Box Extension enables Group owners to promote their Groups on external websites or blogs. This is a great tool for them to attract people and gain popularity, visibility and Likes for their Groups via attractive embeddable badges which can be shared across the web.
Differences between SE Groups Plugin and our Groups System: Below point-wise comparison clearly shows the numerous advanced features you get with our Groups System vis-a-vis the SE Groups Plugin.
| S. No. | Features | SE Mobile Plugin | SEAO Mobile / Tablet Plugin |
| 1. | Joining a Site |  |
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| 2. | Invite Members / Friends | |
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| 3. | Photos | |
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| 4. | Events | |
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| 5. | Discussions | |
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| 6. | Members Moderation / Approval | |
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| 7. | Members Search in a Group | |
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| 8. | Multiple Group Admins |  |
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| 9. | Group Admins can invite non-existing members | |
(From Directory / Businesses - Inviter and Promotion Extension) |
| 10. | Pinboard View for Groups Home page | |
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| 11. | Pinboard View for Groups Browse page | |
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| 12. | Popular / Recent / Random / Location Based Groups: Pinboard View | |
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| 13. | Group Cover Photo | |
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| 14. | Member Strip on Group Profile page | |
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| 15. | Photo Strip on Group Profile page | |
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| 16. | Search Engine Optimized (SEO) URLs and structure | |
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| 17. | Group Overview with WYSIWYG editor | |
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| 18. | Membership Roles | |
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| 19. | Display members based on Membership Roles | |
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| 20. | Membership Date | |
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| 21. | Message Group Owner | |
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| 22. | Message Members | |
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| 23. | Member can tag other members in Group Photos | |
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| 24. | Add People | |
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| 25. | Vanity URLs for Groups | |
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| 26. | What will members be called? Ex: Dance Lovers, Music Lovers, etc. |
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| 27. | Browse by Networks | |
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| 28. | Group Announcements | |
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| 29. | WYSIWYG Editor for Announcements | |
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| 30. | Friend and Network, Friends of Friends, Friends Only, Who Liked This Group - Privacy Options | |
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| 31. | Content (like Polls, Photos, etc.) Creation Notification to Group Admins | |
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| 32. | Notification for posts in Groups to members | |
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| 33. | Featured and Sponsored Marking of Groups | |
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| 34. | Widgetized Groups Home Page | |
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| 35. | Widgetized Home page for Members | |
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| 36. | Widgetized Browse page for Members | |
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| 37. | URLs alternate text | |
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| 38. | Paid / Free Packages | |
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| 39. | Enhanced Member Level Settings | |
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| 40. | List View, Grid View, Map View for Groups Home page | |
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| 41. | Categories, Sub-categories & 3rd Level Categories | |
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| 42. | Custom Profile Types, & Profile Fields for each Category | |
(From User Profiles - Cover Photo, Banner & Site Branding Plugin) |
| 43. | Searching over Custom Profile Types and Profile fields | |
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| 44. | Polls | |
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| 45. | Documents | |
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| 46. | Notes | |
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| 47. | Videos | |
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| 48. | Music | |
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| 49. | Offers | |
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| 50. | Reviews & Ratings [Rating Parameters based on Categories] | |
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| 51. | Badges | |
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| 52. | Form - Enquiry Form creation by Group Admins | |
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| 53. | Add "Multiple Listing Types", "Listings", "Pages" and Businesses to Groups | |
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| 54. | Embeddable Badge | |
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| 55. | Follow Groups | |
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| 56. | Notification for Follow to Group Admins | |
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| 57. | Multiple Locations | |
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| 58. | Proximity Search | |
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| 59. | Browse Groups’ Location page | |
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| 60. | Group Dashboard | |
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| 61. | Get Started Section in Dashboard | |
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| 62. | Status - Published / Save as Draft | |
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| 63. | Group Owner can edit Group Profile Layout | |
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| 64. | Alphabetic Filtering of Groups | |
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| 65. | Categorically Popular Groups | |
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| 66. | Ajax Based Recently Posted, Popular, Random, Featured and Sponsored Groups | |
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| 67. | List View, Grid View, Map View for Groups Browse page | |
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| 68. | Liking & Commenting on Groups | |
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| 69. | “Tell a Friend” link | |
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| 70. | Tabbed Layout and Non-tabbed Layout for Groups Profile page | |
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| 71 | Upcoming Events | |
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| 72. | AJAX based Groups Carousel | |
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| 73. | Most Discussed Groups | |
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| 74. | Most Joined Groups | |
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| 75. | Most Followed Groups | |
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| 76. | Popular Group Tags | |
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| 77. | Group of the Day | |
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| 78. | Groups I’ve Joined page | |
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| 79. | Featured Groups Slideshow | |
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| 80. | About Group on Group Profile page | |
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| 81. | Recently Viewed Groups | |
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| 82. | Expandable Categories and Sub-categories | |
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| 83. | Group Tags | |
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| 84. | Claiming Groups | |
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| 85. | Show Posts by Groups only in Updates Tab | |
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| 86. | Open / Close Groups | |
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| 87. | Getting Directions to Groups | |
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| 88. | Most Liked Photos | |
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| 89. | Photo Lightbox Viewer to view Group Photos | |
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| 90. | Social Sharing | |
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| 91. | Listing of Groups on current user’s location | |
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| 92. | Linking Groups to other Groups | |
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| 93. | Popular Group Locations | |
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| 94. | Most Recent Documents | |
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| 95. | Most Voted Polls | |
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| 96. | Most Viewed Documents | |
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| 97. | Statistics for Groups | |
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| 98. | Search Group Form settings | |
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| 99. | Data Importing | |
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| 100. | Widgetized Home page for Group Documents | |
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| 101. | Widgetized Browse page for Group Documents | |
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| 102. | Widgetized Group Document View Page | |
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| 103. | Widgetized Group Polls page | |
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| 104. | Widgetized Group Poll View Page | |
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| 105. | Widgetized Group Events Home page | |
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| 106. | Widgetized Group Event Profile page | |
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| 107. | Widgetized Browse Group Events page | |
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| 108. | Seemless integration with “Advertisements / Community Ads Plugin” | |
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| 109. | Seemless integration with “Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin” | |
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| 110. | Seemless integration with “Geo-Location, Geo-Tagging, Check-Ins & Proximity Search Plugin” | |
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| 111. | Seemless integration with “Video Lightbox Viewer Plugin” | |
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| 112. | Seemless integration with “Discount Coupons Plugin” | |
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| 113. | Seemless integration with “Email Templates Plugin” | |
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| 114. | Seemless integration with “FAQs, Knowledgebase, Tutorials & Help Center Plugin” | |
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| 115. | Seemless integration with “Advanced Facebook Integration / Likes, Social Plugins and Open Graph” | |
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| 116. | Seemless integration with “Facebook Feed Stories Publisher” | |
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| 117. | Seemless integration with “Suggestions / Recommendations / People you may know & Inviter” | |
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Directory / Businesses Plugin
Directory / Businesses - Business Members Extension
Directory / Businesses - Photo Albums Extension
1) Site Admin details:
- URL
- Password
2) Site FTP details:
- Host
- Username
- Password
This service is normally completed in 12 to 24 hours.
