nextcloud / nextcloud/server

Improve group management

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3. to review enhancement feature: users and groups
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Description

At this moment the group management is a little hell. Groups are sorted by number of members instead alphabetically, cannot rename groups, etc. I think that this must be improved at least with:

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Research direction

The remaining work is bulk adding and bulk removing group members; the removal request is tracked in issue #384. Start by reviewing the existing group-management implementation and the discussion on this issue, then verify that both bulk operations work and that the related checklist items can be marked complete.

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Assessment

Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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