aws-amplify / aws-amplify/amplify-studio
UI Improvement: Display User Group 'Description' from Cognito in Amplify
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Cannot find other issues.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
I will add 60+ organisations with Amplify group names such as "123123312" (from another source system). The management of these organizations will be done by an Admin from our customer. Thus I was hoping that the option to insert `group description` similarly as in Cognito backend would be possible.
As you can imagine, it's not easy to figure out what group is from just these vanity ID's
```
123123213
123213214
12332534
[60+]
```
This is what the current creation of groups looks like:

Also, I wish this info to be shown in the groups metadata listing, here, as a new column:

I think it's a pretty useful option for other usages similar as mine. Just the idea of having some simple metadata related to groups and editable in Amplify directly would be nice.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Adding the group descriptions from Cognito user pools, and only *displaying* them in Amplify (probably faster to implement for you). But still it's cumbersome for our end-user Admin.
**Additional context**
How group description is edited in Cognito user pools. This is where the group description is easily editable - but it's hard to teach our end-user Admin to use this

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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Amplify Studio group-creation flow and the groups metadata listing, then compare the available Cognito user-pool group description behavior. Done means group descriptions can be displayed in the creation flow and as a column in the metadata listing, with the supported editing scope clarified.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws
- Domain
- authentication, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100