Configuring your groups to sync takes only a few one-time steps. After you've got it all set up, you can sit back and watch Rock do the work for you. To get started, you'll want to make sure that Group Sync is enabled for the groups you're working with. This is set at the Group Type level, as described in the Group Types chapter above. Next, you'll need to create a Data View that returns the people who should be synced as group members. The list of people in this data view will be compared against the list of the group's current members. If there are any differences between those lists, the group's membership is updated so that it matches the data view. With Group Sync enabled and your data view in place, go to the group you'd like to sync and edit its details. If you have Administrate access to the group, you'll see a panel labeled Group Sync Settings. At first, when you're just getting started, there won't be anything listed in this panel. Click the ti ti-circle-plus to add your sync as described below. Sync Data View - This is the data view you created to use as the source of your sync. The people found by the data view are compared against the current members of the group, and changes to group membership are made if there are differences.Group Role to Assign - Select the role you want to assign to group members added by the selected data view. Each sync works with one role at a time, so you'll need a second sync like this one if you want to automatically manage both 'Leaders' and 'Members'.Sync Interval - This setting controls how frequently this group should be synced. Having a lot of group syncs running constantly throughout the day might create performance issues in your system, even if no changes are made. So, try to keep the frequency as low as possible according to your needs. When setting the sync interval here, you'll want to keep the Group Sync job in mind, which we'll discuss a little later below.Welcome Communication - If you'd like to notify new group members of their new status in life you can configure a system communication to let them know. We've provided a good template called Sync Welcome To Group that covers most cases. If the member already had a login, it even reminds them what their username is (not their password though, we store that in a super-secret way that not even we can decrypt). If you've enabled Create Login During Sync below, and if the person doesn't already have a login, the communication will include their new username and password (we know the password in this case because we just created it).Exit Communication - You can also choose to send a notification letting people know that they're no longer part of the group. This can be helpful in some cases but isn't required. We've provided a template called Sync Exit From Group for this purpose.Create Login During Sync - When syncing with security roles, you may also want the job to create logins for new group members. This will give those members access to use their new permissions.