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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: remy[/u][p]The admin screens for groups are clear. One may assign a group to another (main) group. Any user that is assigned to the first, becomes automatically a member in the second. As long as the 'hierarchy' is flat, that is 2 deep, there's no problem. What about the following:

I do have friends, special friends and very special friends. Ann is a very special friend and appears in all 3 groups. Bill is just a friend and appears only in the friends group. 
To achieve this I must tell GL that the friends group is subordinate to the special friends group which is subordinate to the very special friends group. So, while my listing of friends will contain friends, than special friends, than very special friends, the GL structure is upside down to achieve this: very special friends contains special friends contains friends. This is somewhat counter intuitive, and the wording is misleading too with respect to the intentions.

When Bill becomes a special friend, I just add him to that specific group. Does this create a second group assignment row ?

And more. Now I am in a mobbing war with Ann and she is not a very special friend any more, but it is not so bad that she is no longer a friend. So, I will remove Ann from the very special friends group. And whoops! She is gone in all groups. cannot even update the groups in one go.

The problem is, off course, that I don't remember how I did structure these groups after all, and there is no easy way to show it to me, in GL that is.
What is missing is a tree view of groups and users.[/p][/QUOTE]

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