Admin Groups page broken after viewing user's group list

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A bug was reported by Json_Blob where the Admin Groups page displays a user’s group list instead of the total list of groups after viewing their profile. To reproduce the issue, follow these steps:

  1. Create a custom group in the community.
  2. Find a user not part of that group.
  3. View the user’s profile, select their group list, and then navigate to Admin > Users > Groups.
  4. The page will show the user’s group list instead of all community groups.

To resolve the issue, a full browser refresh is required. The bug has been fixed with a pull request, as confirmed by nbiana.

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Hello!

I have been setting up a new new Discourse forum and used the bulk invite system to add a small group of people first. I gave them default group values but apparently missed a couple people so I am having to add their groups manually as they join, but I found a bug where the admin groups page gets stuck showing the last member’s viewed list of groups and not the total list of groups. Repro steps as follows:

  1. Have a custom group made in your community
  2. Have a user in your community not part of the group from step 1
  3. View the user’s profile and then select their group list
  4. From this screen, to go the hamburger menu > Admin > Users > Groups
  5. Note the list is the user’s group list not the available list of all groups in the community

Maybe this is a known issue but my brief search I didn’t see exactly the same repro steps explained. So to fix this state, you have to go to the groups page and fully refresh your browser and that seems to clear out the cached list of groups giving you the true admin list of groups.

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Fixed by

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6481

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