Group overhaul = THANK YOU LINDEN LABS!!

Holy crap this came out of left field. Great job on the group overhaul! (and please keep the new max at 25, or higher -- why have a limit?)

WOW.

Really, I am testing the groups out now and this is am amazing upgrade.

It needs some testing, of course, but it is -worlds- better than the old interface. And it is pretty fairly intuitive too, UI wise.

Very impressive.

-Beth

For those wondering--a guide to using the new Groups system will be provided too, soon.

The new group stuff is indeed great but what would be really good would be some LSL functions to go with it... A function to detect if someone has a specified role within a group.

Of course a function to offer invites would be nice as well as well as being able to detect groups other that the object's group.

this is so great its better than pie, and pie is loved by all...
the features I been waiting for some time now, took me by out of the park

Baby steps.

I spoke with a few residents in the 1.12 about this group stuff. We thought that perhaps a History log or tab of sort would be beneficial for groups. You can imagine how much management and administration would be happening with all this great functionality. Somehow we need to keep tabs on what's going on within the group and who's doing what. What do you folks think?

Torley, here's a suggestion for you to pass along to the coders... perhaps to make groups even easier there could be a novice and advanced mode?

The novice mode uses Wizards to walk users through group settings, adding users and setting their permissions, rights, etc...

The advanced mode would be what is currently implemented. A couple of live helpers were talking last night and we pretty much came to the conclusion that walking people through this new groups system is going to be a big headache, because we're talking about people who have trouble opening a box they bought to get their item out.

Also allowed a specific action. That way scripts could be written to work with multiple groups regardless of the roles.

Please let there be a 100 group limit. Thanks

- EVERONE

They're working on this but it will take time.

Agreed on both counts.
Personally I'd wonder if we should allow objects to check if avatars are in a group by specifying the group's name.... so bad groups (e.g. "SL Bad Guys" could all be banned from your land via a script that polled to check if people it detected were members.