A user, michael28, is seeking to make a private group page visible to only group members, while keeping it hidden from everyone else. However, the current system prevents non-staff group members from seeing the page when the “Group is visible to all users” checkbox is unchecked. PJH suggests that this could be a useful feature, proposing two possible use cases: one where group members can see each other’s membership, and another where they cannot. michael28 clarifies that they are looking for the first scenario, where group members can see each other, but currently have no quick way to do so.
I’ve set up a private category for a handful of the members of my site to discuss site policy. The users that can access the category are pulled from a user group I’ve set up.
I’d like for members of this group to be able to see the group page while keeping it private from everyone else, but if I uncheck the “Group is visible to all users” checkbox, non-staff group members can’t see it.
Not sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but this would be useful functionality in a number of cases.
Depends, I suppose, on whether you want to all/prevent other group members from knowing which other members are in the group, or make it an option - I can see use cases for
Seems the current situation is slanted towards #2.
Can’t you simply create a category that’s read/write/create only to those groups members? (That will hide them from non-group members, but allow members within the group to at least communicate with each other.)
The functionality I’m hoping for is situation 1 - the issue is that group members have no quick way of knowing who other group members are.
I have created a category that’s read/write/create to those group members and that works fine, but nobody knows who is actually in the group until they’ve posted.