A Group in Zoho Connect is a membership-controlled workspace that bundles multiple collaboration tools for its members. When you create a Group, it automatically gets its own feed for posting updates, a file storage area, task boards, forum threads, and manuals. Members post directly to the Group’s feed, upload files to its library, and manage tasks within it. Groups can be open (anyone can join), invite-only, or secret (not visible to non-members).
Create a Group for any team, department, or project that needs an ongoing shared space: the HR department, a product launch team, or a cross-functional committee. Groups are the right choice when the collaboration will persist over weeks or months. For a short one-off announcement to the whole company, a Town Hall post on the Network Feed is more appropriate than creating a Group that will go unused after the announcement.
Group administrators control membership, content moderation, and privacy settings. Changing a Group from open to invite-only after members have joined does not remove existing members but prevents new open-access joins. Archiving a Group preserves its content in read-only form. If your organisation has many Groups, agree on a naming convention upfront: unclear Group names lead to duplication and fragmented activity across multiple near-identical spaces.
A Group in Zoho Connect is a full collaborative workspace with a feed, files, tasks, forums, and manuals. A Channel in Zoho Connect is a more focused messaging space similar to a topic-specific broadcast or discussion stream. Groups are better for teams with ongoing multi-dimensional collaboration needs, while Channels suit narrower, ongoing communication streams on a specific subject.
Zoho Connect supports external guest access depending on your plan. Guests can be added to specific Groups and given controlled access to that Group’s content without being able to see the broader organisation network. This is useful for collaborating with vendors, agencies, or clients while keeping their access scoped to a single project Group.
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