Paul Smith
Feedback and Planning
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Paul Smith replied on the discussion topic Organizing Groups In Elgg- Paul Smith replied on the discussion topic Organizing Groups In Elgg
So after searching some more I found an old plugin named au_subgroups but it seems to be very old and not managed anymore. Sounds like what I need so I may try to update it. I also found a plugin named Profile Manager which seems to almost do what I want but not quite so maybe I need to tweak it a bit also. In any case, thanks for bearing with me and any advice or other solutions great appreciated.
While there's no ready-made plugin, your problem can be solved with a custom plugin.
All you need to do is add a new "Category" field (input/text by default or input/tags for multi-categories) to the group creation form and organize pages with group sorting by category.
au_subgroups
Look at hypeGroups.
(Ismayil recently updated this plugin using AI, so give it a try, it might not work as intended.)
This plugin doesn't contain an interface for creating subgroups from the admin panel, so you'll also need a custom plugin to override the structure of your groups' subtypes.
Readme is very helpful.
Thanks for this will take a look. Had to abandon the Profile Manager as I couldn't get it to show categories on the Groups page. Always showed the Elgg default group page no matter what I tried. hypeGroups looks interesting though.
- Paul Smith replied on the discussion topic What Elgg Can Do and Not Do
- Paul Smith replied on the discussion topic What Elgg Can Do and Not Do
- Paul Smith replied on the discussion topic What Elgg Can Do and Not Do
- Paul Smith added a new discussion topic What Elgg Can Do and Not Do in the group Feedback and Planning
Nikolai, thanks again. So you're saying that the administrator created when installing Elgg (me) is automatically given a user profile page like every other user who registers? So, how is he able to stop other users from becoming administrators themselves when they register and from accessing certain privileges/pages/events/functions etc? I am having a tough time wrapping my head around how the platform works. Thanks again for your time.
I won't make a tutorial here, you can always ask a more specific question here.
As for administrator privileges, everything is controlled through the user entity menu (3 vertical dots)
With 'Developer tools' plugin activated, you can examine all the metadata and attributes of any entity via 'Entity explorer' tool.
You can also use 'Login as' feature.
Sorry to have upset you. I will just move on. Thanks
- Paul Smith replied on the discussion topic Security of Elgg