Reference:BlueSpiceGroupManager

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Extension: BlueSpiceGroupManager

Overview
Description:	Administration interface for adding, editing and deleting user groups and their rights
State:	stable	Dependency:	BlueSpice
Developer:	HalloWelt	License:	GPL-3.0-onlyProperty "BSExtensionInfoLicense" (as page type) with input value "</br>GPL-3.0-only" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.
Type:	BlueSpice	Category:	Administration
Edition:	BlueSpice free, BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice Farm, BlueSpice Cloud
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Features

GroupManager allows to create new groups, and to edit and delete existing groups.

Using the group concept, you can soften the wiki principle

a little so you create groups to which wiki sysops can assign differing permissions

to work with a more granular permissions model. Using groups, administrators can assign differnet permissions to users. For example,

you

a group can have

a group with permission to

read

but not make any changes in the wiki. However, you should only use the group concept when it is absolutely necessary is, as

permissions, but no edit permissions. Use the group concept wisely, since otherwise the cooperative dynamic suffers.

Where can I find

With the

function Group Manager?

To manage groups, open the Admin tab in the left navigation bar (sidebar), then click on Group manager.

Screenshot: Open the Group Manager via the admin navigation

The functionality of Group manager

You will see a list of all the existing groups.

Screenshot: Overview of all user groups

Create group

To create a group, move to the administration page via the link "WikiAdmin" (this is only available for sysops). Then choose Group manager. The link "New" takes you to a form where you can enter the name of the group.

Screenshot: Add a new group

The new group will now be visible in the list. It is only given "Read" permission as standard. In order to change this, you must edit the group.

Editing the group's permissions

The permissions of individual groups can be changes in PermissionManager.

Assigning users to a group

This is not done via group management, but via user management, which you can find in the administration area. You can see which groups a user is a member of in the column "Groups".

Deleting groups

Next to the edit button in the list, you will also see a buttons which allows you to delete group a group. If you want to delete more than one group at once please mark all groups and use the minus button at the top

The only groups you cannot delete are "All" and "Users", as they are basic wiki groups. The users that were members of the groups you delete are not deleted. They will still exist.

Group manager, you can:

• create groups
• edit groups
• delete groups (system groups cannot be deleted or edited)

Users are assigned to groups in the User manager. Permissions are assigned to groups in the Permission manager.

Technical Information

This information applies to BlueSpice 3 . Technical details for BlueSpice cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements

• MediaWiki: 1.31

• BlueSpiceFoundation: 3.2

Integrates into

Special pages

• GroupManager

Permissions

Name	Description	Role
groupmanager-viewspecialpage	Access to the special page Special:GroupManager	accountmanager, admin, maintenanceadmin

API Modules

• bs-groupmanager