Custom Ecosystem

Subject: Community Builder – Multiple Private Communities Within One PlatformWe have received an inquiry regarding the feasibility of supporting multiple independent communities within a single Community Builder installation.The proposed requirements are:

1. Each organization would have its own private community (group), with a dedicated landing page and optional branding.
2. Each organization would have designated moderators.
3. Organization administrators should be able to invite users by email to register and join their respective communities.
4. Invited users should be able to register for free and participate in their organization's private group discussions.
5. Users should have the option to purchase a subscription through CBSubs, with the ability to add a predefined number of additional users (Family Plan) under their account.
6. All organizations and users should operate within a single Joomla/Community Builder installation, with appropriate separation of community membership, content and administration.

Could you please advise:

• Whether these requirements can be implemented using existing CB, CB GroupJive and CBSubs functionality.
• Whether organization administrators can manage their own communities without Joomla backend access.
• Whether invited users can be automatically assigned to the appropriate private group following registration.
• Whether any additional plugins or custom development would be required.

We would prefer to use existing functionality wherever possible.Thank you for your guidance. 

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Having multiple organizations under a single Joomla instance is doable, but the problem comes from separation of moderation. You wouldn't want Organization A to be able to moderate Organization B, but that's not realistically possibly out of the box with CB since CB Moderator permissions are pretty globally encompassing and would likely require some custom work to try and implement limited organization moderation. If you, or your company, is going to handle moderation and the organizations just make requests to you then that could actually work out fine as then you'd be the sole moderators.

A single Joomla site using CB GroupJive for the organizations however could work very well. The organizations could either be categories or groups themselves, whichever you prefer. Then the organization would be admins or moderators of their organizations groups limiting their moderation scope. They can then invite people to join those groups, etc..

Group invites automatically accept during registration so that should take care of dealing with putting invited users into the correct organization.

We will go with a single Joomla site using CB GroupJive for multiple organizations, each with a single group.
It will have more appeal as a fully managed and supported service.

Thanks.