As a head-scratching lurker here...? If you want to encourage subcommittee membership, but don't want to make full committee membership a pre-requisite, why not just make a new group for the subcommittee??? You haven't described your reasons for wanting this, but the ones I can imagine would work fine with it.? Just name the new group oldgroupname-subname or some such and move on...? (This suggestion flew by early in the discussion but got no attention.)
Good luck,
Jim
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I have fully understood how main groups and subgroups work.? I have always been aware that there are only two levels, the main group and subgroups (no sub-subgroups).?
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I operate about 20 groups, two of which are local civic groups ("committees").
When I first set up these groups for committees, I renamed "main" to "full".
And I've used the subgroups mechanism for other creative uses, too.
Organizationally, a committee is the high-level group.? Some committees have subcommittees, while others have working groups.? For the purposes of , a subcommittee and a working group are the same.?
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The only problem that I've run into is the requirement that a subgroup member must also be a member of the main group.? I was hoping that there was a way to have subgroup members who aren't in the main group.? It seems there isn't a way.? Given that, I will go back to the subcommittee and say that subcommittee members must also be members of the full committee.? (I'm trying to encourage participation among members of the community without them necesssarily joining the committee or a subcommittee.)
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Cal
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