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[Kristina Hoeppner <729896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

In Mahara we separate groups into open, invite and request membership
groups (plus controlled course group). Having used groups a bit more in
the last few weeks on MyPortfolio, I run into problems with invite and
request groups because often a group is an invite only group that I am
supposed to join, but can't because I can't send a request to be added.
The group admin often doesn't know who wants to join, but wants to send
out invitations in the beginning to encourage people to join.

That would mean that he needs to create the group as invite only group
at first, invite people and then change the group type to request
membership so that others can ask to be added to the group. I am
wondering if we cannot role these two group types for standard groups
into one as it is still always up to the admin(s) to add people.
However, if we had just one group type, it would be easy to invite
people as well as allow for requests to be made.

If these group types shall continue to co-exist, I would suggest to add
to the request group that users can be invited like in the invite only
group.

This is similar to bug 610690 and should be tackled together.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729896

Title:
  Add member invitation to request membership group

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  In Mahara we separate groups into open, invite and request membership
  groups (plus controlled course group). Having used groups a bit more
  in the last few weeks on MyPortfolio, I run into problems with invite
  and request groups because often a group is an invite only group that
  I am supposed to join, but can't because I can't send a request to be
  added. The group admin often doesn't know who wants to join, but wants
  to send out invitations in the beginning to encourage people to join.

  That would mean that he needs to create the group as invite only group
  at first, invite people and then change the group type to request
  membership so that others can ask to be added to the group. I am
  wondering if we cannot role these two group types for standard groups
  into one as it is still always up to the admin(s) to add people.
  However, if we had just one group type, it would be easy to invite
  people as well as allow for requests to be made.

  If these group types shall continue to co-exist, I would suggest to
  add to the request group that users can be invited like in the invite
  only group.

  This is similar to bug 610690 and should be tackled together.