# Nested user groups **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Tags:** permissions, sharing\ **Created:** [December 15, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nested-user-groups/10169 "2025-12-15T10:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ichter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/michael_ichter/32/9931_2.png) [@Michael\_Ichter](https://community.fibery.io/u/Michael_Ichter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nested-user-groups/10169/1 "2025-12-15T10:41:59Z")
It would be nice if we could nest user groups. We have two levels: roles and departments. A role can be filled by one or more people. And departments can have multiple roles (but a role will only have one department). We have a lot of sharing happening automatically through roles, but sometimes something should be shared with an entire department. It’s tedious for people to search for which roles are under a department and then manually put them all in when sharing. Automatically populating a department user group with role user groups would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nested-user-groups/10169/2 "2025-12-15T11:24:15Z")
Why not treat Department as a User Group as well? Use a lookup to get all the Users in a Department from its Roles, and then enable User Group functionality for this field. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ichter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/michael_ichter/32/9931_2.png) [@Michael\_Ichter](https://community.fibery.io/u/Michael_Ichter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nested-user-groups/10169/3 "2025-12-15T12:19:59Z")
Ah, nice! We haven’t really used lookups before, so I was unfamiliar with them. This is a very handy use! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nested-user-groups/10169/4 "2025-12-15T13:53:03Z")