Commit 1913f1ed authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add info on group membership

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parent bb99fc25
......@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ When you add a member to a subgroup, they inherit the membership and permission
level from the parent group. This model allows access to nested groups if you
have membership in one of its parents.
The group permissions for a member can be changed only by Owners and only on
the **Members** page of the group the member was added.
You can tell if a member has inherited the permissions from a parent group by
looking at the group's **Members** page.
......@@ -111,19 +114,35 @@ looking at the group's **Members** page.
From the image above, we can deduct the following things:
- There are 5 members that have access to the group **four**
- Administrator is the Owner and member of all subgroups
- User0 is a Reporter and has inherited their permissions from group **one**
which is above the hierarchy of group **four**
- There are 5 members that have access to the group `four`
- User0 is a Reporter and has inherited their permissions from group `one`
which is above the hierarchy of group `four`
- User1 is a Developer and has inherited their permissions from group
**one/two** which is above the hierarchy of group **four**
`one/two` which is above the hierarchy of group `four`
- User2 is a Developer and has inherited their permissions from group
**one/two/three** which is above the hierarchy of group **four**
- User3 is a Master of group **four**, there is no indication of a parent
group therefore they belong to group **four**
`one/two/three` which is above the hierarchy of group `four`
- For User3 there is no indication of a parent group, therefore they belong to
group `four`, the one we're inspecting
- Administrator is the Owner and member of **all** subgroups and for that reason,
same as User3, there is no indication of an ancestor group
The group permissions for a member can be changed only by Owners and only on
the **Members** page of the group the member was added.
### Overriding the ancestor group membership
>**Note:**
You need to be an Owner of a group in order to be able to add members to it.
To override the membership of an ancestor group, simply add the user in the new
subgroup again, but with different permissions.
For example, if User0 was first added to group `one/two` with Developer
permissions, then they will inherit those permissions in every other subgroup
of `one/two`. To give them Master access to `one/two/three`, you would add them
again in that group as Master. Removing them from that group, the permissions
will fallback to those of the ancestor group.
Note that the higher permission wins, so if in the above example the permissions
where reversed, User0 would have Master access to all groups, even to the one
that was explicitly given Developer access.
## Mentioning subgroups
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