Make subcollection available in a Group

stratopoulos

I have created a Group Library for my research assistants and I would like to share one of the subcollections from My Library with the Group Library. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks
TS

adamsmith

why couldn't you just create the subcollection in the group and then drag all files from your subcollection there?

stratopoulos

Thanks!
TS

adamsmith

while I think about it - the only disadvantage of this is that it wouldn't update automatically. Not sure if that's possible.

bdarcus

Updating isn't now possible, but it's the radar.

stratopoulos

I guess I was too quick to celebrate.
Is there any other approach that could allow group members to update and share their collection?

adamsmith

no, not atm. Remember that the group feature really is in an early version of beta, so many of the things that will eventually happen don't work yet.

stratopoulos

I understand.
Will the following work as a manual/temporary solution? If I export my sub-collection and send it to the other members of the group, they can use import to update their sub-collection.

Will the import be incremental or delete all of their entries and replace them with I sent?

adamsmith

even simpler!
If you just add new items to your sub-collection, you can just drag them to the group sub-collection and sync.
If you change existing items in your subcollection, you can delete the old one in the group subcollection and replace it with your modified one - then sync.

Maybe the above was misunderstandable: Of course you can update the group subcollection with information from your library.
But that doesn't happen automatically as you change your library - that's what I mean with "doesn't update".