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[Gordon McLeod <1269411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kristina,

Sadly I've neither funds, nor time (chronic shortage) to develop this. Would it help if we argued that it's a bug rather than just a feature request :) - justification logical practice case might be 
Step 1) Develop template pages you want students to use as basis for an exercise 
Step 2) Add those resources to a group (or develop them in the group)
Step 3) Add students to group
Step 4) Make group editable by students

Expected Result) Students can edit the template resources
Actual Result) Students can't edit resources because they only have view permission on things created before group permissions were changed

Workaround) Admin goes through the tedious job of updating permissions for every individual artefact (assuming they know how to find that hidden setting).
Better Solution) Changing group permissions gives a prompt "do you want to apply this change to all existing group artefacts?  Yes/No" - if yes then updates existing editing rights to all group/page artefacts.

Regards, Gordon.

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Title:
  Feature Request: Group artefact permissions management tool

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As described in the comments below, there are situations when it would
  be useful for a group admin to be able to change the permissions for
  all artefacts in their group, all at once. (Sort of like doing "chmod
  -R".) Currently, permissions on artefacts have to be edited
  individually, which can pose problems if the "Create and edit pages"
  permission dropdown is changed after a group has already been around
  for a while.

  ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:

  Hi,
  As everyone assigned as a group admin on Mahara gets notifications when people request group membership we've tried switching staff to the tutor role in course groups, with the permission set 'everyone except ordinary members can edit'
  The staff are seeing the edit buttons, but when they click on artefacts to edit they are unable to make changes - eg to amend an existing text box. The text box opens but displays oddly and says 'the text you have selected is not editable' (see screenshot attachment). (Mahara version 1.63, LAMP environment).

  Thanks, Gordon.

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