Overview

Admin Essentials is available as a Plugin and as an Add-On. They add several useful features not available in the core product interface, including changing social group URLs, and bulk-adding users to Social Groups (by username, id, or email address).

The Plugin and the Add-On functions do not have feature parity.

IMPORTANT! Note that the plugin has several features that the Add-On does not.

This article lists down the list of features, their descriptions, and the corresponding Plugin and Add-On availability.

Information

Feature	Description	Add-On Availability
Rename Social Group	Allows a group administrator to change the name and URL of the Social Group.
Bulk Add Users to Social Group	Allows a group administrator to add users in bulk to a Social Group, skipping any invitation or approval process.
Add Users to Social Group (no invite process)	Allows a group administrator to individually add users to a Social Group, skipping any invitation or approval process.
Social Group Permission Sync	Syncs a Jive Permission Group to a Social Group membership.
Auto-Group Membership Approval	Automatically approves group membership into private groups without the group administrator's intervention.
Auto-Question Mark	Automatically changes any discussion in specified containers into a question.
Auto-Categorization/Tag Sync	Automatically matches any tags that are categories and adds the categories, or vice-versa with categories to tags.
Federate/Unfederate Users	Allows an administrator to toggle a user's federation status ON or OFF.	Available out-of-the-box
Bulk Add Users to Permission Group	It allows an administrator to paste a comma-separated list of many users to add to a permission group at once.
Auto-Follow containers to Inbox	It allows an administrator to force a user to follow specified Places to their Inbox.	Available through the Jive Auto-Follow Extension
Auto-User Signup Approval	Automatically approves signed-up users newly unless they are on the blacklisted domains list (controlled by wildcard rules).
Reset Place Overview	Allows an administrator to reset the Overview page of a Place if a widget has broken something. (Workaround for bug JIVE-3715)	Bug fixed. No longer necessary.