Group administrators can view their portion of the network by clicking the "Network" tab on your group's manage page. This tab will show your group at the top and any child groups underneath your group, giving you a clear picture of how data is flowing in your part of the network. If you're in a child group, your parent group will be linked in the upper right corner of this tab.
You can search for groups in your network by clicking the magnifying glass icon and entering search terms, and you can expand or contract network levels by clicking the arrow icons.
Group administrators are also granted inherited permissions on children groups. In the "Network" tab, the "Manage" button next to each child group will allow you to jump directly to that group's manage page and administer that group with the same permissions you have on the parent. For example, if you can launch emails on the parent group but can't edit settings, you can jump to the manage page of a child group and launch email to their list, but not edit their settings either.
You can override this inheritance and give administrators less or more permissions on a child group by adding that administrator directly to the child group using the invitation system. By default, when the administrator is invited they will be added to the child group as an administrator instead of an organizer, and have their inherited permissions set explicitly. From there, you can edit their permissions and set different options for the child group. Those new permissions will inherit downward to lower child groups in the network unless overridden further down the chain in the same way.
If you do not want administrators to have permissions inherited in child groups, you can note this when adding them as an admin. Click the red 'Click here to disable inheritance' button to prevent admins in the parent group from accessing child groups. If you do this and you share a targeting page, query, etc that has child group data targeted to an admin WITHOUT the inherited permission they will not see that section. If they save the page they will remove that targeting.
Finally, if an administrator of a parent group is added directly on a child group, administrators for the child group will not be able to edit their permissions, remove their administrative status, or kick them out of the group. Only other administrators at the level of the parent administrator or higher will be able to edit those options.
Also note, any administrator added to a group in a network will automatically receive access to our partner features: uploads, page and email wrappers, and API access.
You can also edit a child group's permissions to control which features it can access. Features in the Start Organizing menu, such as petitions, fundraising, tags, and emails, can be turned on or off for a specific child group. You can also control access to mobile number and SMS opt-in fields. For example, you can restrict a child group to reports only or remove its access to tags and custom fields. A parent group can set permissions for any of its child groups.
These permissions do not automatically apply to groups further down the network. A child group cannot change its own permissions, but it can set permissions for its own child groups. If your network has Boost enabled, you can also turn access to DataBot on or off. You can learn more about that here.
To set permissions for a specific child group, go to the Network tab and click the permissions button for that group. You can apply the permissions to only that child group or choose to apply them to its child groups as well. You can also set permissions for all of a group's immediate child groups at once. From the Network tab of the group's manage page, click the shield and down-arrow icon labeled Child Permissions. This allows an admin with the necessary permissions in the parent group to apply a one-time permissions change to all of that group's child groups.
If the email permission is removed from a group then it will not appear on the all network subscriptions page for activists unsubscribing from your emails.