Allowing users to creat a group

[scottalanmiller]

I literally found the same thing seconds ago! Was just looking into that too.

[a_5mith]

@arasbm Same thing I believe, but whoever creates the group has control of it. Which, could be exploited, I've not tested it extensively enough.

[baris]

Yeah that feature is pretty new,
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/2700 will help.

[arasbm]

@baris is there any information available about what this feature actually is and how it will work? I am still wondering how it fits in with the admin controlled groups.

[baris]

Backend wise they all use the same functionality. An admin created group and a user created group is essentially the same, although admins can give permissions to groups while a normal user who created a group cannot.

[baris]

I just updated this forum to latest so group creation for normal users is disabled now. It is a site wide setting in the ACP>Settings>Group section now.

[miluo]

@baris how can we get this new group feature? i tried master branch, i saw ACP settings, after i enable public group, i still did not see it show up in header. which branch should we use to get this ? v0.6.x ? 0.7.0 ? master? thanks.

[baris]

You need master latest and then vanilla/lavender themes latest version to get the template files that support that feature.

[faizanzahid]

@baris is there any way by which I can only allow global mods to create the groups? but not normal users?

[baris]

Not possible right now without a plugin, you can wait for https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7217 to be implemented