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[Gordon McLeod <826649@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I'd be more than happy to see the shortname auto generated based on group name. That would then solve this for all new groups - but would it also resolve for legacy groups or would that need additional work to generate an amendment 'if group.shortname="" then group.shortname="group.name"? It would be nice if the blank fields could also be auto generated during site upgrade without admin user action - but if that isn't possible a button/link available to site administrators to 'generate missing shortnames' as part of group administration section of the admin panel would be great.

I agree that displaying the shortname to group admins is needed so that
they can refer to it when making requests for changes but it makes sense
that the ability to alter the name should be restricted to institution
and site admins.

This might seem like a daft question but I'm asking from a position of
ignorance as I'm keen to learn. What is group.shortname actually needed
for? Could it just be stripped out and references to it renamed to
group.name instead? The only reason I can think of for having 2 separate
names for these fields is to have a short character friendly name that
can be used for csv import - but as Aaron pointed out it doesn't seem to
have that constraint.

Regards, Gordon.

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Title:
  Add group shortnames to manually created groups

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Mahara 1.5 groups can be created via a CSV file and associated with
  an institution. Often, however, groups can be created manually, but a
  CSV upload of the members may be preferred. Thus, it would be good if
  manually created groups could also have a short name (that is also
  displayed to the admin) so that members can be added via CSV.

  This wishlist item needs a bit more thinking because the CSV feature
  allows institution admins to create groups that are associated with
  their institution (though it doesn't do anything with that information
  yet, I think) but not on a site level. Furthermore, if groups already
  exist, they would need to be assigned a short name. And then who can
  add members as they are not associated with an institution yet?

  Furthermore, the CSV upload is also only beneficial if users don't
  change their user names. An admin must be aware of that or his upload
  may not work most of the time. Thus, user names should be locked.

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