The system as it is now seems to base itself on a non-dynamic organisation of users. In reality organisations that use LimeSurvey are dynamic.

The same comments count for adding user groups to survey groups: when adding users to a user group these new users do not have automatically access to the surveys in the survey group.

After adding a new user to a usergroup and logging in as that user, this user can see that there are survey groups (the survey group his user group has been given access to), but (s)he sees a 403 error.

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This means that when your organisation employs new survey administrators, the whole concept of user groups and survey groups is actually worthless, the new survey administrator has to be given access/permissions on survey level.

Great start, but not there yet... ;-)

I think all is moved to SurveyGroup now, better to use the new system

This issue seems to be still open in Version 6.16.2+251209 (Community Edition).
We would like to donate for an update towards dynamic user groups, meaning that all users are automatically granted with the related permissions (or get removed) when the group is edited.
Thank you

I think all is moved to SurveyGroup now, better to use the new system

:)

Thanks Denis. By the "new system", do you mean the new unstable Version 7?

New: Upon running the latest update (6.16.8+260209), the "add group users" button doesn't work - see screenshot

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Thanks Denis. By the "new system", do you mean the new unstable Version 7?

No, I mean using Survey group like "permission system" for a lits of users

User groups have 2 puprose

• Quick shortcut to add the same permission to a list of users (single time)
• Show some user to other user: Group members can only see own group ( https://www.limesurvey.org/manual/Global_settings/en#Security )

To manage permission of a lits of user's on survey : i think it's better to use Survey groups now.

So, when new users (or "survey administrators") are added to a user group, they should automatically inherit the rights of all surveys, where this user group has been added to.
If this is right, it doesn't work. Thanks again for your help!

So, when new users (or "survey administrators") are added to a user group, they should automatically inherit the rights of all surveys, where this user group has been added to.

No, it's not the case; see the 2 purposes: "Quick shortcut to add the same permission to a list of users (single time)" It's a single-time shortcut.

I see, thanks. But this issue is not a bug, but should be treated as a feature request, as originally stated in the description.
We would like to donate for an update towards dynamic user groups, meaning that all users are automatically granted with the related permissions (or get removed) when the group is edited.

Also, the adding user group to a survey now (6.16.8+260209) does not work. Could someone check and clarify, if this is to be treated as an individual bug?

Also, the adding user group to a survey now (6.16.8+260209) does not work. Could someone check and clarify, if this is to be treated as an individual bug?

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/d54b9bcf8acd66c10ca9ff32aeae8c51265cf004