I am building a site will be extensively using the fantastic auto create/join feature of GroupJive. However I cant seem to set it up in an ideal way for my use case.

What I want is for users to automatically join a group representing their town. So I have set up a new user rule to create a group based on the field cb_town. This works great but if 2 people register in the town Greenwich, we end up with 2 Greenwich groups. I can create an auto join rule for Greenwich but this would mean I would have to create a rule for every town in the UK, which would be thousands lot of rules.

So what I think would be an amazing additional option for "New Group" would be something like "Join if a groups with the same name already exists".

Do you think this feature is likely to be added to GroupJive? If not, do you think it would be possible to manually implement this feature using incubator plugins?

An extension to this idea could be applied to new categories. We want the categories to be UK counties so the Greenwich group should be created in the category Greater London. However, I couldn't find a way to automatically create a category and then create a group in the newly created category. I could pre-define all the categories (counties) and groups (towns) and create a join rule for each but this would mean that we have thousands of empty groups and we also lose the concept of a town (group) founder (owner).

Any suggestions for making this category creation and group joining dynamic?

Many thanks

Fantastic, thanks!

Yes, the ultimate solution would be to create a category (based on a field) and create a group in that category (based on a field) at the same time. If a group of the same name already exists, simply join it.

Thanks again, happy to test this feature pre-release.

Awesome, thanks!

Cant wait to try it