Rock U - Groups - Group Location

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Okay. So let's take a brief second and talk about group locations. And what I want to do is just want to show you what the different types of locations are and maybe give you some ideas of when you might use each. So, if we're looking at a at a group detail page, obviously, we'll see a static map for all the locations. And if we go in and go ahead and pick a new location for a group, we have several different options. So, the first is we can use the the group member location. We'll come back and talk about that. But under other location, depending on how your group type is structured and configured, you'll have the ability to pick up one of these four different address types. The first is called location and that's really just a named location. And you can configure your named locations under admin tools, general settings, named locations. Now typically, is gonna be your campuses and within campuses you you might put buildings and within buildings you might put rooms. So they're hierarchical. And so this is where you're gonna define what specific locations mean to you and give them a name. Now, if there's certain spots maybe off-site that you commonly have, events or meetings at, it could be that you could add those too. It's completely up to you. But the key is these are locations that have a specific name and then and purpose to you. The next type is address. And it's just simply an address that you type in and that becomes the location that you're meeting at. The next one is point. So that's basically will give you a map and you just kind of point where that, location is. And then we're just taking the latitude and longitude of that and storing that. So at that point, all we know about that location is the latitude and longitude. The final location mode that you can pick from, from this picker is the geofence. So this basically defines a boundary on a map, using points and you can assign that then to the group. So this is common if you have groups that maybe represent certain sections of your town a neighborhood and maybe that's a regional type group that kinda holds small groups below it. And so you just wanna go ahead and put a a geofensor on that to show the boundaries of that area. So that's very handy. And I mentioned too, the the other one is, and this is a very common one especially in in small groups is the location is gonna be derived from the home address of one of the group members. So this is a very easy way of picking that, not necessarily have to knowing their address going to look it up, you just pick their name and you get their address. And if that address were to change, then it also changes here too. Okay. So those are the various location types within groups.