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title: Groups
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The Groups application allows site members who share an interest in a certain topic or field to access related information and share their own experiences on a subsection of your website. Site users can create new groups or join already existing ones. Groups may contain their own documents section, forums, message boards, media libraries, polls and projects and have the option of defining group roles. Groups can also be useful for managing access control.

![Example: A list of groups related to traveling](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/groups/image2013-2-26.png "Example: A list of groups related to traveling")

Site administrators can manage groups of a given site through the administration interface. Learn more in [Working with groups](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/groups/working-with-groups.md).

Both site administrators and users who are in authorized roles can edit the content and various settings of groups. Learn more about this in [Editing groups](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/groups/editing-groups.md). Further settings available only to global administrators are described in [groups settings](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/groups/reference-groups-settings.md).

To allow users to use groups, you have to place some group web parts on your site. You can find the web parts in the **Community** web part category. An example of this that describes how to enable users to create groups can be found on the [Allowing users to create groups](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/groups/allowing-users-to-create-groups.md) page.