User Groups

AddChat's one of the most awaited features. AddChat automatically detects the website's User-Groups. Admin can set permissions for the groups from AddChat Admin-panel. Like, which group can chat with which.

Multiple User Groups

{success} AddChat supports multiple user groups e.g a user can belong to multiple groups.

Setup User Groups

User-groups option is by default disabled. Admin have to enable it from Admin Panel -> Settings. But first, your website must have User-groups functionality.

Setup User Groups

To enable User-groups option, the website must meet the following requirements.

  1. Groups or Roles table.

  2. Pivot table for Users & Groups or Roles table, which contains sets of User Id and Group Id or Role Id.

{primary} We've developed the Group system according to most common & standard User Groups/Roles functionality.

After completing the above requirements, the Groups can be enabled by following steps-

  1. Open Admin Panel and click on Settings
  2. Scroll down to User Groups Table section.
  3. Click on Group on/off checkbox to turn on Group functionality.
  4. Fill in the following form fields


Groups Table

Setting Name Type Description
Groups Table string enter Groups table name e.g groups
Group Id string enter Group's table Id column name e.g id
Group Name string Group's table group name column e.g group_name


Users & Groups Pivot Table

Setting Name Type Description
Users & Groups Pivot Table Name string enter name of users & groups pivot table e.g users_groups
Pivot table User Id string enter Pivot table User Id column name e.g user_id
Pivot table Group Id string enter Pivot table Group Id column name e.g group_id

{danger} All the above form fields are required to enable Group functionality.

{success} After completing all the above steps, click on  Save Settings and logout & login again.

Set Groups Permissions

Once after setting up Groups configuration successfully, you'll see all your website Groups in the Admin Panel -> Chat Groups and there you can set the permissions that which groups can chat with which group.

Set User Groups Permissions

Follow these baby steps to set group permissions

  1. On the Admin Panel, go to Chat Groups

  2. Click on  Permissions on any Group, e.g Members

  3. A Popup will open, simply check the checkbox with which groups, the e.g Members group can chat.

  4. Click on  Save Permissions

{primary} Admin Group users can chat with everyone (zero restrictions).

Groups List

Once everything is done, when the users click on the AddChat widget User Groups tab, they'll see all the Groups according to the Groups Permissions.

Chat within User groups

And also when the user clicks on each Group, they'll see all the Users in the Group and can chat with them.

{success} This is also useful when a new user joins your website and wants to chat with any other user.