Core Docs - Engagement - Intro to The Group Finder

Rock Version: v20.0
Last Modified: 2026-05-01 1:40 PM

The group finder is another very powerful block that allows your website visitors to search for a group and register quickly. The group finder has been configured on the external website under Connect > Small Groups.

If configured in the block settings, it allows for searching by the day of the week that the group meets and the study topic. Selecting your criteria and clicking Search returns all of the groups that match those criteria. From there you can choose to register for a group.

Public Groups
Only groups that are marked as Public can be viewed in the group finder. You can change the public setting by editing the group.  

While this default configuration should work for many organizations, there are a number of ways you can alter the experience by modifying the settings of this block. Let's take a look at what's possible in the block's settings:

Another Way to Use the Group Finder
If you pass a 'PersonGuid' through the page's query string you can use the group finder to register that person for a group. You can use this trick to say link from a group badge on the person profile page if they are not already in a group. This allows a staff person to quickly register them for a group without a lot of clicking around.
Consider using the Group Member Add From URL block with this feature.