Manually created groups can be associated with an institution
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Mahara |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
This is a follow-on wishlist item to the fix in bug #1597133 and the wishlist item bug #1597134.
Manually created groups are associated with "No institution" per default. It would be good if we could change that on the interface so that institution admins could take over the administration of these groups, e.g. to update group settings or group membership via a CSV file (or web services calls).
A few different ideas are floating around, and we'll need a bit more discussion around which one would be the best or a different one:
1. Allow site admins in the "Group settings" screen for each group under "Administration -> Groups -> Administer groups" to select the institution, which would add the institution shortname to the group.
2. Allow site admins to add an institution shortname field to the CSV file to update the institution that a group should be associated with. This may be a bit complicated as that shortname would need to be found first by clicking on the institution settings or download a CSV of all the institutions.
3. Allow group admins on the group settings page to select the institution with which the group should be associated with. Or should this only be possible for people with staff / admin permissions?
If the group creator is in only one institution, that assignment could be made automatically, but the group admins should be able to change that, e.g. if there are admins from different institutions or the admin changes.
