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.**

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**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:

![Screenshot 2021-12-09 at 12 38 24](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3482617/145381189-6c8a0fe8-4f3c-42c8-9364-50c138c81357.png)

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

![Screenshot 2021-12-09 at 12 31 00](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3482617/145381590-165a6223-85ea-4fa1-a4fb-bd87da17842c.png)

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

![Screenshot 2021-12-09 at 12 49 45](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3482617/145382901-1ed43dd7-b58d-45b7-8ca2-c461448735f8.png)
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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

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