Changing Social Group Leader without Transfer

[hallenberg]

Hi there.. I'm developing Social Groups for a particular purpose whereby users will not have permission to create groups freely; it will be Dr Admin's job to create a social group and then designate a leader.

I've discovered that the standard method of group ownership 'transfer' (wouldbe between Dr Admin and the designated group leader) won't work if the intended recipent doesn't have the permission to create groups..

Instead it seems fine to force a change of group ownership by jabbing a finger into the database to change the group's creatoruserid, but I'd appreciate a vB guru's view on whether that's all I need to worry about before I script it..?

Many thanks