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​The VNC filters that GC adds filters out only content that the user does not have permission to view. So if they aren't a part of a collab, but they still have permission to view the content, then it will be included in the VNC list.
​Agreed. This thought has crossed my mind as well. I believe this may help relieve some of the VNC frustrations outlined by @Police Community also.

@Police Community I feel your pain. As much as I've tried to lead our community away from the "main forum index" as the single page to look for new content, they still expect that to be the place that everything is collected. It's rather frustrating, but there it is.
And since almost every community on our site is read-public, in the global "View New Content" page people have to wade thru new posts in subject areas they don't care about.
A quick way to fix it might be a category that says "My Collaborations" on the New Content page. This way you can limit the view to just what you care about, and join/leave collaborations to affect whether they appear there. You'll still have the global setting if you want to read everything (like I do).

Hi @Kevin Carwile - Appreciate this is my third request in a row but hopefully it will allow you to answer them all in one go ... :-) 
We have launched this now on our site and our members are loving it, the thing they are asking for is for a way for them to identify if there is new content in a particular collaboration. I appreciate they can use the Global View New Content but things are difficult to identify in there if you are trying to filter down to a collaboration as thats not an option.
Is there a way to highlight which have new content, does view new content only show content for collaborations that they have 'joined' or all if they have view access to them all? Is there anyway that this could be improved to make it easier?
Previously we had all of the collaborations as individual sub forums under a main category displayed on the board index and if new content appeared in one of those areas then the forum would be highlighted bold on the board index. Because collaborations are now not controlled as individual forums that are available for display on the board index we have replaced this with a series of re-directs straight into the collaborations but because they are re-directs none of them show if new content is available by going bold. That will hopefully give some context as to what our members are effectively used to.

Thanks
Wayne

Per-group badges was a customization I coded for rsyvarth's Social Groups. I'm working with Kevin in PMs to ensure his autoconversion of rsyvarth content will work for us. Once I'm sure it does, I am considering releasing an add-on mod for Group Collaboration. to give you per-group, per-rank forum badges. Would this be valuable to you? Here's a screenshot of this in action on our IPB3 rsyvarth Social Groups board:


I will admit it's a bit "busy" but our community likes the "fruit salad" approach to badges.

Hm, I'm rather surprised there's no roster management. Social Groups has one, and it's fairly simple. You can invite people, remove people, adjust their forum rank, and add different ranks (beyond Guest, Member, Moderator, Admin). We used this to great effect: we added ranks for the hierarchy of our groups and used this to create forums within groups that were accessible by e.g. just the officers within the group. You also get the tabbed interface for a membership list. This is all doable from the GroupCP with no ACP access.
Within collaborations there's always some sort of hierarchy - you generally need to give certain people more or less responsibility than others. Attaching a simple label to that, and driving things like forum badges and access permissions from that makes perfect sense to me in a very abstractable sense.
I've attached 3 screenshots of how rsyvarth's Social Groups solves this problem.
I thought Group Collaboration was basically a superset of rsyvarth's code. Does Group Collaboration not provide these features?

Thats member management, and yes, GC does that. Member permissions, roles, ranks, and invite system is all included.
I believe that the roster management request is in reference to building some sort of a tournament management system into GC.
But that would be a separate app with its own objectives and its own price point. 

Though I have been happy with rsyvarth's Social Groups app in 3.x, he's been slow to get plans announced for 4.x. As we have a well-established and large (few thousand member) active community, a migration option from Social Groups (we have 50+ of these) would be mandatory before we could consider moving to this solution. Is something on the drawing board? If so, care to take a guess at a timeline?

Though I have been happy with rsyvarth's Social Groups app in 3.x, he's been slow to get plans announced for 4.x. As we have a well-established and large (few thousand member) active community, a migration option from Social Groups (we have 50+ of these) would be mandatory before we could consider moving to this solution. Is something on the drawing board? If so, care to take a guess at a timeline?