{"id":36606,"date":"2024-12-10T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/help\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/what-is-the-hierarchy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:42:33","password":"","slug":"what-is-the-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/organize-groups\/what-is-the-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the hierarchy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In ChurchTools, you can organize your Groups hierarchically. This allows you to map your church structures even better by combining Groups that belong together in a group hierarchy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are super- and subgroups. For example, you can assign various groups to a group and thus create a structure with a super group and several subgroups.<br>However, you can also use more than two levels and, for example, assign further groups to these subgroups and thus create even more levels in your group hierarchy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the hierarchy in the <em>group menu<\/em> (1) on the left-hand side. There you will see all the <em>super groups<\/em>(2) and <em>subgroups<\/em> (3) that have already been assigned and you have the option of assigning <em>further groups<\/em> (4). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-1024x526.png\" alt=\"Groups - Group Hierarchy\" class=\"wp-image-37402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-1536x789.png 1536w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-2048x1053.png 2048w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Group-hierarchy-CleanShot-2025-07-17-at-09.41.14@2x-360x185.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find our detailed instructions for creating a group hierarchy <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/create-edit-groups\/how-do-i-edit-super-or-subgroups-of-my-group\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7214\">here<\/a>.<br>We have also put together a few <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-modules\/organisation\/37-gruppen-miteinander-vernetzen\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7200\">examples<\/a> of how you can use the group hierarchy to good effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article to read more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/gruppen-meine-gruppe\/how-to-edit-super-or-subgroups-of-my-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to edit the sub-groups within my group?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/organisation-en\/networking-groups-with-each-other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Networking groups with each other<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/gruppen-meine-gruppe\/how-do-i-create-a-new-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to create a new group?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ChurchTools, you can organize your Groups hierarchically. This allows you to map your church structures even better by combining Groups that belong together in a group hierarchy. There are super- and subgroups. For example, you can assign various groups to a group and thus create a structure with a super group and several subgroups.However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[458],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[224],"class_list":["post-36606","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-organize-groups","knowledge_base-churchtools-modules"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":174,"total_views":"1617","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Jasper Stehmeier","author_nicename":"jstehmeier","author_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/jstehmeier\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Organize Groups","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/organize-groups\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/","term_slug":"churchtools-modules"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["churchtools-modules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/36606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36606"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/36606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49959,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/36606\/revisions\/49959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=36606"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=36606"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=36606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}