Access collection drop down list of Group Entitities no longer showing other Groups

[tomv]

In Elgg 1.7 when we add an entity like a new page or blog to a group like a group 'Dev Team' we could select for read access also other group, like 'Group:All Personnel'.

In Elgg 1.8 it seems we can only assign read access to the same group or to public, private, friends, a friend collection. This makes it impossible to have a core group of people that can change items, like in our case 'Group:Dev Team' and a wider group of people that can follow but not change like in our case the people in one company...

[cash]

The change was intentional. Reasons:

• people who were members of a lot of groups had huge drop down menus
• people were accidentally setting the access to the wrong group and then surprised why no one else can see the file

You should be able to modify this behavior with a plugin. If this is difficult, please open a ticket about making this easier. It's possible the access list should be generated with a plugin hook (don't remember if it is or not).

Also, you may want to take a look at the shared access collection plugin for 1.8. I haven't used it but it is supposed to support creating an access list that is shared among users.

[tomv]

Ok, thanks. Sounds ok to me. Access rights indeed are confusing to many users, so simplifying is welcome. We could make a new access drop down view, which which shows an extended version for those cases where it could be useful.