I know a feature that would really benefit me is allowing user groups to become "members" of another user group. this would make permissioning MUCH easier.
For example, I am running a phpbb for an organization board. The board structure is a tree relationship as follows, where each node is a group, and users are added to leaf groups:
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Everyone
Executive Board
President
VP of each branch
Branches
Branch 1
committee 1
(user: member of committee 1)
committee 2
(user: member of committee 2)
Branch 2
committee 3
(user: member of committee 3)
...
In my site, each committee member only has permissions to their committee forum, their branch-wide forum, and the board-wide forum. This means however that each committee must be permissioned individually for each forum. Instead, what I propose, is that groups can be members of other groups and would inherit their permissions. This would mean that for the "Entire Board" forums, I could just set the permissions once for the "everyone" group and never have to worry about individual groups at the committee level (where the actual user accounts are). Then for the "executive board" forum, i can permission it once for the group, likewise not permissioning each indivudual executive board group for the forum. (i could give more examples, but i think you understand my point!)
Effectively what i am asking for is the ability to create a parent/child relationship among groups insead of the current sibling only relationship.
Please let me know how i can be of further assistence.
thanks
jpearl
