# Groups (/docs/indicator-apps/groups)



A **group** is an optional label that organises your indicators into sections. As an
indicator app grows, its list of indicators can get long; groups let you sort them
into tidy sections like "Energy", "Emissions", and "Finance" so the list stays easy
to scan.

## What a group does [#what-a-group-does]

A group is about tidiness: it decides where an indicator sits in the list, the
indicator-app equivalent of putting related items into folders so you can find them
quickly. That is all it does - a group never changes whether a datapoint is
collected. To make a datapoint apply only under a condition, put an
[applicability rule](./indicators/input.mdx) on the datapoint itself; to exempt a
whole section, put the same rule on each of its datapoints.

## Create a group and move indicators [#create-a-group-and-move-indicators]

To organise your indicators:

* create a group and give it a name that describes the section,
* move indicators into the group so they appear under it,
* move them back out, or into a different group, whenever you reorganise.

Indicators that you do not put in any group still work exactly the same; they simply
appear on their own rather than under a section heading. You can group as many or as
few of your indicators as you like.