Regular user cannot create or access groups

[barjac]

I'm under the impression that this feature (groups) is intended to be accessible to all web users, however testing in 1.28.0 it seems that the groups feature is only visible in the UI to admins with system edit rights.

Can this be changed so that any user can set his/her own groups for monitoring?

[knight-of-ni]

Here is what I currently see in groups.php.

In order to view the "Groups" view, one must have canView( 'System' ) permission assigned to them under Options -> User

In addition to that, the New, Edit, and Delete buttons require additional canEdit('System') permission.
The Apply and Cancel buttons do not have any permission associated directly with them.

This sounds reasonable to me, but I've never used groups before. Is there some reason why you don't want to give the canView( 'System' ) permission to your users? Is there an existing permission that might work better? canView( 'Monitor ' ) perhaps?

Note that since this is php script, you can easily experiment with this and modify your groups.php file to find what permission might work better.

[connortechnology]

I don't see any reason to restrict the group filtering. I intend to make it available to all, subject of course, to user <=> monitor restrictions.

[barjac]

Thanks - that sounds good :)

[knight-of-ni]

Didn't @connortechnology previously fix this, or do I mis-remember?

[connortechnology]

I did do something, but I can't find it now. Must have just committed it instead of doing a PR. I think barjac wanted more.

[barjac]

IIRC you made it so that normal users could access groups previously set by an admin, but not set them up. I thought that regular users should be able to set up their own groups.

[knight-of-ni]

@barjac what say ye? Can we close this or is there more work to be done?

UPDATE: I see your response

[barjac]

I have not rebuilt recently so no idea how it is at present. Mageia 5 was in freeze for months :\ I still think as above. If a user just wants to group a few monitors together for a montage they should be able to do that.