Managing groups

What is BlueSpiceGroupManager?

BlueSpiceGroupManager is a tool for managing groups on the wiki.

Accessing the group manager

The interface for the Group manager is provided by BlueSpiceGroupManager. It allows adding, renaming and deleting groups. An administrator can go to Global actions > Management > Group manager. This opens the page Special:GroupManager:

Functionality

The group manager has the following features:

• Viewing groups: it provides a list of all user groups
• Creating new groups: Clicking on the "plus" button opens a dialog for adding a new group.
• Renaming groups: A group can be renamed by selecting it and then clicking the wrench icon. System groups and groups declared by other extensions cannot be renamed.
• Deleting a group: A group can be deleted by selecting it and then clicking the "x" button. System groups cannot be deleted.

Further operations with groups

To assign users to groups, use the User manager. To assign roles (permissions) to groups use the Permission manager.

See also

Reference page for this extension.