15 May 2009, 13:45

We are new to Mahara and have installed v 1.1.3.  I'm trying to find where I can remove a group that no longer has an associated admin.  More specifically, can I simply remove the group(s) in question from the 'group' table in the MySQL database or are their other tables involved that will cause issues if this is done?

17 May 2009, 17:52

Hi - I'd have a look at the group_delete() function in lib/group.php, and do everything that it does. What it seems to do is mark the group as deleted (there's a 'deleted' column), and updates the name to be [old-name].deleted.[unix-timestamp] - which prevents name clashes later if someone wants to create a new group with the same name.

We're aware that you can end up with groups with no associated admin, and there's a bug report open somewhere about allowing admins to find and deal with such groups