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[Kristina Hoeppner <1133281@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Every group created on Mahara should get a shortname assigned to it
automatically if it wasn't created by CSV file so that administrators
can change them via CSV in the future. Currently, you'd have to create
the groups from scratch via CSV to get that value in. The shortname
could be displayed to the administrators on the admin interface and
downloaded as CSV file (as we do with statistics data). That way, they
would get all the group settings and could easily manipulate them.

The tricky bit would be though who can see those groups. Generally, as
mentioned above, groups aren't associated with institutions at the
moment. If an institution admin creates a group via CSV, they are
somewhat related to their institution though as they can only add users
from their own institution to this group.

A simple first approach would be for the site admin to be able to
download all group information via CSV.

Allowing institution admins to download the data for groups created by
people who are in their institution were generally also good, but would
get complicated with people who are in multiple institutions. Would both
institution admins then see those groups? They could overwrite each
other's settings.

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1133281

Title:
  Institution data not added when creating groups

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  While trying to add group members by CSV I discovered today that none
  of our groups on Mahara were assigned an institution on our mySQL
  database - either those migrated from previous Mahara 1.4 or any added
  since in 1.5 or our current 1.6.2 version.

  I can manually add the record to each group as the institutions are
  listed in a dropdown field and should be able to script replace any
  blank values with a default one (if anyone can suggest the script that
  would be great, otherwise I'll figure it out eventually), but moving
  forward is this a bug specific to our installation or more widespread
  - and what would we need to do to fix it so that future groups are
  automatically assigned into the correct institution?

  Thanks.

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