By zis on

Hi,
I am currently reasearching a solution for the company's intranet. I am familiar with drupal and will probably use it. But i need a specific function and would like your help with it.
I need to divide the users into groups. With each group having a group admin. The group admin should be able to add/remove and manage users of his group.
I found the organic groups module. It seems interesting. But the thing is that the group admin cannot create a new user. I need group admins to the able to create users that belong to their group. But group admins shouldn't have site wide or cross group privileges.

Any suggestions? basically, what i need is to have different user groups with a group admin that has full power on his group. But NO power outside it.

thanks

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kmillecam commented

Organic Groups sounds like what you need.

The group admin _can_ add members to their group. But, you're right unless given the appropriate rights, they cannot add members to the community. Since this is an Intranet site, won't all of your employees already be members of the community?

Maybe the Webmaster can be charged with fielding requests from group admins to add users.

We make use of Organic Groups on this site, http://juice.altiris.com, to allow users to join groups that discuss specific products.

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zis commented

Actually not all employees will be members of the community and we have alot of trainees that come and go.

I think i will go with Organic groups and modify it to let each group admin create users and manage them.
The actual system we have is a script i wrote with a hierarchical users structure but the code is too clumsy and with all the extensions over the years, it's getting out of hand.

The other idea i'm trying to figure out is using the taxonomy structure to classify users. Dunno if it can be done, i have to resarch it. Anyone got more info about the subject?