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[Kristina Hoeppner <826649@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dmitrii will look into:

1. When a group is manually created, assign it a unique shortname based
on its name.

2. Add a bit to the upgrade script to automatically assign a unique
shortname based on its name, for each existing group that doesn't have
one. (This should be trivially easy).

3. Display the group shortname as a non-editable field on the group's
config page (e.g. /group/edit.php?id=1).

4. Make the group shortname an editable field on the group config page
for site administrators. Note: this functionality will be available to
site adminstrators only as institutions don't really have groups
assigned and it could be too far reaching for institution admins to
change group shortnames for groups that had been created by other
institutions (e.g. if you set up an Alumni institution). The site admin
would still need to add themselves as admin to the group in order to
make that change. Right now, a site admin can only change group settings
(except for quota and administrators) when they are group admins
themselves.

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 16.10.0

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826649

Title:
  Add group shortnames to manually created groups

Status in Mahara:
  In Progress

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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