Wayne B

​Well, you could move the forum out of the collab and then move the topic and then move the forum back into the collab if this is a relatively infrequent task you will need to be performing.
Otherwise, you could do some magic with my Rules App.
Add a custom integer data field to Forums Topics, call it "Move Topic to Forum ID". Make it "administrative" so admins can edit it on the topic form Add a rule that is triggered when the custom data field is updated Add a condition that checks if the value is greater than zero Add an action that moves the topic to the new forum with the updated ID value Add an action that resets the updated ID value back to zero End Result:  move-topics-to-any-forum.xml
Topics will have a field called "Move Topic to Forum ID" that can be updated by administrators, and when an id is entered and the topic is saved, it will be moved to the forum with that ID. Rules are cool, eh?

Currently, you must log in as member.
Next release is ready to go. I'll package it and update the marketplace this evening.

Click your user name in top right of page and then click the link for collaboration memberships. You can transfer it from there.

Yes, I recently noticed that too. I was previously supressing that core IPS behavior via my own code, but they made a change in the latest version that undid it.
My next release will contain a fix for that.
BTW, there will also be another option included in my next release to apply collab restrictions to owners to prevent them from specific collab management abilities. I know you were eager to see that functionality added.

@Kevin Carwile - So far i love what this is going to become - just now getting a chance to formulate how I will deploy this.
by way of humble suggestion - I will attach a screen shot of a very basic mockup of the First Level I would like to see for Collab.
Currently on entering the collab you have just big black spaces for panoramic artwork to go in there, which means I'll now have to go re-new my subscription to iStockPhoto or some other place like that to find artwork that abstractly captures the essence of the content - sadly it will become dated very quickly and most likely be of images of a random group of office people or some other such cliche. 
This would be the first screen on entry in lieu of the pano-photos. For me the current system is too many levels deep for my users - and if I decide to move several categories and  forums over here I don't wish the people who maintain them to feel slighted or that these have become buried. 
The idea is that each Collab has its List and Grid View, and you can see at a glance the options that collab has ( apps ) and a blurb about what the group is about.  Not sure about the avatar - perhaps the member who set it up or probably the last person to contribute to the group (regardless of app) - or perhaps a logo of the group setting it up.
Also the "About Link" at the top of each collab would navigate to a basic "page" that describes what goes on here and who and what are. etc. And of course if the collab is open to allow users to add start their own via the link is there (see the second group) and also a button at the top that would be a drop down of available collabs 

humbly - stephen

Sorry Kevin I didn't realise it would continue to work once moved back, my misunderstanding. As that's the case and with the rationales you have given above I agree with what you are suggesting most definitely.
At least we are all thinking it through though ?

You would only need to do it once to select the forum as a destination. The import will work on the forum while it is part of a collaboration or not. In fact, there is no internal difference between a collab forum and a non collab forum. Only GC knows the difference.
The hook you speak of is already in place. It actually does the reverse of what you said. It filters the forums out that GC knows are part of a collab, because the core system doesnt know the difference. Otherwise management would become very messy with main site forums being buried and sandwiched in groups of collab forums (that could also possibly have the same names making it difficult to know if you even have the correct forum selected).
Not only that, but the IPS framework uses the same method to list forums in the main site index as it does in the forum select form field, so without the filter in place, all collab forums would also be listed in the main site index as well. And there is no practical way for the hook to know if the forum list is being requested for a form field or for the index page, so you cant have one without the other. In other words, if its exposed to the form select field, its also exposed to the forum index and every other part of IPS core that works with forum lists.
I think the best solution is to just move the individual forum in question out of the collaboration temporarily to expose it to the select field on a case by case basis rather than exposing every forum in every collab all at the same time.

You're correct. At the moment that kind of granularity is not built in. But I agree that it would be a good addition. You can expect to see that in an update.

​You can assign permissions and limits for creating collaborations to individual site member groups, and I believe you can sell group memberships via nexus/commerce so you're already covered from that angle. As for selling specific allowances within the collaboration environment, that can be accomplished in a number of ways. You could set different permissions and limits for certain collab categories and sell memberships to groups which have access to those categories. Or you could add the features to their collaboration manually as an administrator.
I've also just release a new "Rules" application which could be used to create automatic rules which perform those operations based on when the user buys a certain product from commerce. Look for it in the marketplace. I have plans to release an expansion pack for the rules application also, which will bring specific rules functionality for the commerce app so look for that too!

There will be some widgets included with the 1.1 release that will show featured collaborations and such, just like there are widgets included with the forums app that show featured forum topics. This way you can place the widgets/blocks on whichever pages suit you. But GC makes no assumption that you have Forums installed on your site, or any other app for that matter, so if you decide to place widgets or create forum links, that's entirely up to you.

​That ability will be included with the GC 1.1.0 release coming very soon!