Hi Andreas, Thanks for this wishlist item. It's a bit trickier than described. There could be multiple group administrators and one of them could still have the privileges to decide on the group's visibility.
If the permissions of who can set up public groups is changed, a process could be kicked off to review which groups would be affected to let the site administrator decide whether those group settings should be changed rather than changing them without any notice. A workaround right now is to update the database directly and change the group setting to 'No' for the groups in question. I don't believe it would be good for the group administrator to still be able to see the visibility setting and change it to 'No' as that would then also mean they could keep it on 'Yes'. They may also not know when the site administrator makes that switch. Therefore, it should be an administrative action and then the site administrator can inform affected group administrators. For example: 1. Site admin changes the group default settings for visibility and saves the screen. 2. Mahara presents the site admin with an alert asking to confirm that all groups that don't have one of the privileged people who can still create publicly visible groups be set to not visible any more. The groups are all listed. This is a 'Yes' for all or 'No' for all situation. If the site admin says 'Yes' to remove the public visibility, all groups will be changed and the group administrators notified. If the site admin says 'No', they can change the settings for each group individually. Cheers Kristina -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: mahara-contributors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1988416 Title: Public groups can not set back to not public Status in Mahara: Confirmed Bug description: If users are allowed to create public groups by setting "Publicly viewable group" to yes then these groups can later not be changed to "Publicly viewable group" to no, if the "site options --> group settings --> Create public groups" is changed from Everyone to "site administrators only". It would be better if the administrators of a group would be able to always be able to change the setting form "public visible" to "public NOT visible". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1988416/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
