Prayer requests can be associated with a group. This allows prayer requests to be limited to the group members, so only they pray for the request. In this chapter we'll take a deep dive into how this works, and how these types of prayer requests differ from standard requests.

Finding a Guid For a Group

Before you create a group-specific prayer request, you need your group's Guid. How do you find a group's Guid you ask? A Globally Unique Id (Guid) isn't easy to come by. They are unique and hard to guess, preventing attackers from impersonating your group.

As an Admin though, you have direct access to any Guid using Lava. To retrieve a group's Guid, try the Lava below — no guessing necessary. Just pass in the GroupId, and it will return the corresponding Guid.

{% group id:'xx' %}
    {{ group.Name }} - {{ group.Guid }}
{% endgroup %}
                

Creating Group Prayer Requests

All you need to do is pass a group's Guid into the Prayer Request Entry block. The block will be looking for a GroupGuid parameter in the URL, along with the Guid itself. If it finds this, the prayer request will be associated with that group.

As pictured above, nothing will change or appear differently on the page. The prayer request would be entered and submitted like normal. The only way you'll know that the request is tied to a group is when looking at the request from the internal administrative view under People > Prayer > Prayer Requests. Clicking on a request will show you its details as pictured below, including the associated group.

Note that the group associated with a prayer request cannot be changed or removed once it's been set.