Groups are a way to organize and share content about a specific topic or common activity. As the portal administrator, you also use groups to configure your organization's featured content, galleries, and templates. This optional configuration of featured content, galleries, and templates allows you to customize which maps, apps, and templates are available to your organization's members.
Set up groups to configure custom content for each of the following:
- Featured content—Use a group containing featured content to highlight maps and apps on the portal website home page.
- The gallery—The Gallery page on the website provides a set of maps and applications that members of your organization can use.
- The basemap gallery—The basemaps you use in Map Viewer and Scene Viewer come from the basemap gallery.
- Featured groups—You can help your portal users find targeted content by designating groups to showcase. Groups that you add to the list of featured groups appear as links under Featured groups on the Organization and Groups pages of the portal website.
Share site configuration groups with your organization or the public. You cannot use private groups for site configuration.
For information about creating a group, see Create groups.