How to change the group header image?

psychobunny

Are you a member of the group?

Henry Wright

@psychobunny Yes, I'm an admin and the group I'm testing is my administrators group.

Robert

@henrywright By any change are you the owner of the group?

Henry Wright

@Kowlin Yes, I'm admin. The group was created automatically when I set up the forum but I assume with admin rights I'm the owner?

Henry Wright

I tested with Chrome and Chromium and mouseover shows nothing on both.

Robert

Ye that seems like a small overlooked thing, There is no way to assign your self a owner of the group. And this means that you cant change the image the normal way. This is due the fact that you need group ownership to change settings like background image and kicking members. (What is kinda not a good idea to do for the administrator group) A workaround can be creating another pseudo 'Admin' (No need to to permissions since users of that group will be past of the system admin group anyways) group and assigning your admins to that while hiding the system group.

Henry Wright

@Kowlin that makes sense but shouldn't admins be able to change the image on any group they wish, including groups they didn't set up?

Robert

@henrywright apparently not, seems like somewhat as a oversight to me

Henry Wright

@Kowlin Do you think I should open an issue?

Robert

@henrywright I'm sure @psychobunny will note it if I secretly mention him

Henry Wright

@Kowlin Haha thanks!

psychobunny

When you have the choice between opening an issue or tagging me, choose the former because I have the memory of a goldfish

Robert

@psychobunny Haha, good to know. This shall do the trick
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/3469