Group Management: Feature Request

[omegerard]

When you are managing groups in Alfresco, you can do three things:

- Create subgroup
- Delete Group
- Add User

I would like to add a fourth one:

- Add group

It would give me the opportunity to reuse a (sub)group that I have already defined. Hence, it would improve manageability.

Is there any reason why this would be impossible? If you can't find any, would you have any objections to adding this functionality?

[kevinr]

I don't believe there are any technical reasons why this should be a problem, since you can already create groups within groups (called sub-groups - but essentially the same as any other Group). I'll raise a JIRA task to track this enhancement request.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kevinr]

JIRA is down at the moment (we are upgrading it) so i'll add the task once that's complete.

Thanks,

Kevin

[omegerard]

I wonder what has come of my request. I'm now testing 1.3.0 and I still can't seem to do what I'd like to do. Let me explain it once again.

I defined three (user) groups: A, B and C.

Within each of these groups, I created one subgroup: X in A, Y in B and Z in C.

This state of affairs is clarified in the following diagram:

[img]http://www.vangilbergen.net/AlfrescoGroups.png[/img]

What I'd like to do now, is to create a group M that consists of the subgroups X, Y and Z. In other words, I'd just like to reuse existing subgroups (for ease of operation).

[andy]

Hi

Groups are uniquely named and, by default, they are reused.

So if you already have group A and then add A is a child of another group it will not create a new group A but reuse the existing group A.

As I recall, this is not obvious from the UI.

Cheers

Andy

[loggheci]

I suppose I don't understand your answer…

I try to make two trees of usergroups:
1 organizational tree (because I don't use LDAP or Active Directory)
1 functional tree that I link to my workspaces

I want to include organisational usergroups (f.e. department HR) in several functional groups. Each functional group is linked to specific workspaces with specific rights.  If a person leaves the department HR then I only have to remove it from one group, the organisational…

But I can not add groups into groups… I did some tests in 1.4 enterprise and 2.0 preview community.

I suppose it must be possible to arrange that since you can add persons to several groups…

[dominique]

this is now listed as a bug:

http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AWC-1070