# Group administration functions should be better surfaced

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303 "2019-03-22T06:17:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303/1 "2019-03-22T06:17:11Z")

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I am managing a group of users on a small Discourse forum and am hitting some usability issues, that make working with groups awkward. There are a bunch but I would like to address

1. I can not see on the user card what groups the user is a member of:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/a/ea968f267498621a08c6700caab2ee76e0e81ea8.png)

Mark is a member of the “parents” group but I can not see it.

1. The biggest killer problem I have is that I can not force all the members of my group to watch a category

### Proposal

1. Add a “visible on card” option for groups that forces the group name to be displayed on card.

2. Add an actions option for group management, allow **admins only for now** , to force all members of a group to “watch/track/watch new topics” any of the secure categories the group has access to.

For (2) it should spin up a modal that says `[] override user preference` if selected even if user is tracking/muting/watching it should force the new level.

I find (2) a completely critical feature for small group management, when traffic is really low only way to get engagement is to force people into a much louder mode.

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