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NOTE: This documentation relates to version 2 of GroupAdmin.

Installation

• Install and activate the module in the usual way.

• If you have users' real names stored via the Profile or Content Profile modules, activate the corresponding sub-module for Group Admin.

• If required, create suitable nodes to hold "help" text. You can have up to three, shown to Group visitors, members and admins respectively. Optionally create translations of those nodes.

Configuration

The configuration page is at (site)admin/settings/groupadmin.

• Check and set options in the Access control section. If not set correctly, this module might expose real names and email addresses of users.

• Setting the More permissions will cause the following extra permissions to be shown on the system permissions page at (site)/admin/user/permissions - act as a member for any group, act as a visitor for any group, act as an admin for any group, act as the manager for any group, administer groupadmin, view/search email addresses, view/search real names. Note that these relate to GroupAdmin operations only, i.e. they will not provide additional access to operations such as node editing or Broadcast.

• Set the node numbers (nid) for help text nodes. If using multiple languages, any nid in the translation set may be used.

• Set other options according to your needs.

Access Control

The access control section allows you to restrict access based on a user's role within the group.

• Visitor - anybody who is able to view the group node (group home-page). That in turn depends on whether the group is public or hidden,

• Member - a standard member of the group. In addition, if more permissions is enabled, anyone who has a role for which the act as a member for any group permission is granted.

• Admin - a group administrator. In addition, if more permissions is enabled, anyone who has a role for which the act as admin for any group permission is granted.

• Manager - the group's "owner" - the author of the group node and typically the user who created the group. In addition, if more permissions is enabled, anyone who has a role for which the act as manager for any group permission is granted.

• Nobody - what it says, except GroupAdmin will allow access if the user has some relevant higher-level permission such as manage permissions.

Notes

• The GroupAdmin page can be accessed directly at (site)/og/users/123/groupadmin where 123 is the node number of an existing group node.

Use with Profile or Content Profile

GroupAdmin can display and search users' real names stored using Profile or Content Profile modules.

• Profile is a standard Drupal module.

• Content Profile module project page: http://drupal.org/project/content_profile

Support for these modules is provided via a GroupAdmin sub-module which needs to be activated in the modules list. Thereafter, additional configuration options will appear in GroupAdmin's configuration page. There you can select which profile fields provide user-name data.