Groups and squads

A group is how a club organises its people. Most groups are squads - Senior Women, Novices, Masters - but a group can be anything you want to gather people around. Groups decide who sees which sessions, who can be seated in a lineup, and who a scoped role reaches.

Group types

Groups can be sorted into types that your club defines - most clubs end up with something like Squads, Committees and Social groups, but the list is yours to set in Club Settings → Group types.

A type is a way of grouping the groups: it keeps squads together in lists and filters, and lets a club describe its own structure rather than bending to ours. Types are optional - a club can happily run with a handful of untyped groups.

Positions

Within a group, people can hold positions - Captain, Vice-Captain, Welfare Officer, and so on. A position isn't just a label: it can carry permissions, so whoever holds it gets the access automatically. Make someone the Captain of the Novice squad and they pick up the ability to run that squad - no separate role assignment needed. This is one of the three ways a role reaches a person; see Roles and permissions.

Badges

Groups can show a coloured badge so members are easy to spot across Rowbot - in the member directory, on lineups and against sign-ups. A quick glance tells you which squad someone rows in.

Memberships can auto-join groups

You don't have to add everyone to their groups by hand. A membership type can be set up to auto-join its members into one or more groups. So when someone takes out a "Senior Membership", Rowbot can drop them straight into the Senior squad. See Memberships and billing.

Where to manage this

Committee members create and organise groups, positions and badges in Groups and positions. Coaches and captains work within their groups - see I'm a coach or captain.