Provide group admins with a button to allow non-group members to subscribe to groups (e.g., non-members click a button on the group page to receive notifications of new public content in the group).

This will be especially useful for closed but publicly visible groups, which seems to be increasingly popular on my site. These groups want to have private work areas and also provide public awareness and view access to certain pages and files within the group.

It would be great to have the same settings in the group activity widget that are provided in the RSS Feed widget. In particular, the ability to hide the excerpt.

It would also be nice if the group activity widget used the same item_number settings applied to the RSS Feed widget instead of having to override them separately.

when the groups setting to create group is for admin only, the title button still appears on some pages. this should be removed

Hi,
I've installed the module in my Elgg 1.8.5 in development environment. I'd like to know if the above situation is how it works, or is related to a problem in installation:

• I've created a private group, and then I've sent an invitation to a friend.
• He doesn't receive any notification about that invitation.
• If he visits the group, the "Request membership" button is there. If he hits the button, he actually joins the group, as long as he was invited.

The problems I see here are

1. he should get a notification about the invitation
2. If he goes directly to a group where he has been invited, the button should say "join the group" instead of "Request membership"

Thanks a lot

• my groups (and remove menu item)
• owned groups (and remove menu item)

The feature 'Group owner transfer' don't work for group owners.
After saving--get error 'An unknown error occured while saving the group, please try again'

Profile block could be reduced a lot in most cases. Maybe group tools should provide such a minimized group profile layout

I find the Free HTML widget to be extremely useful for organizing links to important content on the group pages. However, it is difficult to use for people without HTML skills. I figured out that I can use a comment box or page to generate the code using the TinyMCE editor but this is difficult to teach other group admins how to do. A stripped down TinyMCE editor with a few formatting buttons would be very helpful.

Add an alphabetical group members tab to sort them alphabetically and make this the default sort order.

Currently they are sorted by group id, which becomes a bit confusing when you have more than a few related groups.

Open groups that have joining disabled via this plug-in can still be joined through the new sidebar entry.

I'm finding that active groups with low membership are getting lost in the available sort orders. It would be nice to have a way to raise recently active groups to the top of a list. One way would be to add a group tab for "Recently active" that sorts groups by date of latest group activity, including comments.

The group listing pages of "latest discussions" and "ordered" seem to be lacking pagination, thus with a lot of discussions or groups these get really big.

"ordered" also seems to be not very clearly labled as all it seems to do is to list the groups as "newest", right?

Feature request:

Similar to linkedin, group owner cannot change (or limited number of times) the name and description of the group.

I was just wondering what version is this module compatible with? 1.8.0.1? Thanks Mario

The option under "more" in the edit group menu to allow user registration acts strangely e.g. the "Do you want to allow users to join this group:" option.

If I am in a closed group setting it to "yes" seems to enable the group membership request button.
However in a open group setting it to "yes" actually disables the join button.

custom text field to fill in a welcome message

only if text is present, mail sent

I have a group with over 300 members, and am getting OOM errors when trying to edit the group. The admin transfer option loads all member entities to generate the dropdown menu. With the group_tools auto-join option it's conceivable that groups could grow much larger.
Recommend a userpicker limited to group members ideally, or as a quick fix a custom select for the name and and no callback function on the egef function

the suggested groups list is only of any use when we are logged in.. currently i am seeing it when i am logged out too. when i click it, i see an elgg error message.

• preview invite message
• preview csv sample
• invitation report
  • per user what happend
• better description of options

After checkout of this 2.3 version (not finished I assume) When I try to save the desktop or profile activity group widget, it claims "We could not save your widget". I'm very interested in getting this work as I need any kind of user's groups activity widget, activity or list.

This feature should do the following:

• add a plugin setting to enable this feature
• add a "Follow group" button to a group profile page / status box (you can only follow groups that have public content enabled?)
• add "groups i follow" filter to widgets / tabs
• you get content creation notifications for groups you follow
• you can get digests / newsletters ???
• special activity page filter ??
• amount of followers visible on group profile (where you can also see members)
• you can not be a member and a follower at the same time

The option "Do you want to allow users to join this group:" set to "no" will allow users to join freely, while set to "yes" will hide the "join" button. This is exactly the opposite of what makes sense I think.

Also if it is set to "yes" (in an open group) there is simply no other option than being invited (which is confusing for an open group), but it would be nice if there was a "request to join" button that would send a notification the group admins.

todo

• add tool option to activate this feature
• add form to relate groups
• two tabs to show related groups
• group owner notification
• widget/group module

Similar to how the "blogs" widget has a "more blog posts" link at the very bottom it would be great if the "group discussion" widget would have a similar clear link at the bottom to the full list of discussion topics in that group.

Group manager and admin have the invite button, but group members not. Plugin settings to allow group member invite is Yes (off by default, but on by default also tested). Group settings also specifically set to yes. No button appears for group members to invite others.

It would be great to have some light-weight group theming options. For example, change the color of the group pages. This would allow better group branding with any other group web pages.

When a user is created in the system and is autojoined to a group, they don't get the group welcome message as they have no notification settings yet.

Suggestion: use method override based on plugin settings for default notification methods

Clicking the More [ContentType](e.g., More bookmarks) link at the bottom of a group widget directs to the site listing of the [ContentType] instead of the group listing. It should point to the group listing to better support groups.

If I try to invite someone by email who has a yahoo.co.uk address the .uk is cut off making it impossible to use this function. I suspect this should be the same for all .xx.xx addresses.

with large groups it can be hard to assign group admin. needs work

There's probably a bug in the default/groups/invitationrequests.php at line 120,
I think the action URL should be killrequest instead of delete_request

Do you agree ?

Pietro.

When ownership is transferred to a different group member, and multiple group admins is enabled, there are two images showing for the group owner in the "Group admins" section of the side bar.

The group news index widget does not react to the -size of widget in pixel- advanced setting, and the "advanced" button is not resized with widget width and is thus invisible in thinner widgets.

Originally posted in WidgetManager issues here: ColdTrick/widget_manager#20 by @poVoq

Instead of "Enable group admins to assign other group admins", have these options:

Within a group, who can appoint new group admins?

• No one (site admins only)
• The group owner
• The group owner and group admins

Group admin can configure email domains in group settings so:

• add plugin settings to enable feature
• If user joins site, he also joins group based on matching emaildomain
• If user wants to join a group that is "closed", but his email domain matches, he can join without authorization

I have a use case where a group admin would like to create pages but not allow other group members to create pages, but still wants members to have the ability to create discussions, blogs, etc. It would be nice if the admin could set the option to both include group tools and restrict their access, individually, to group admin only.

Is possible when transfering ownership to a user that is a group admin. When someone becomes a group owner, remove the group admin relationship

I am using this plugin:
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1049119/0.3/your-groups-topbar-menu
as a very convenient way for users to access their groups.

But IMHO that would also fit perfectly into this plugin and since the plugin linked above seems to be not maintained anymore it would be great if it would end up in group-tools as an option to enable.

Thanks and keep up the great work!