Creating a new user group, the "Parent" doesn't seem to stick...

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Everett Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago
I’m trying to create hierarchical user groups via xPDO, but when I set the "parent" attribute, it doesn’t seem to stick... when I view the user groups via "Security --> Access Controls", the user group is never created as a child of the user group I’m trying to make it a child of.

Here’s the code snippet:
```
			$UG = $modx->newObject('modUserGroup');
			$datestamp = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
			$UG->set('name', $new_name );
			$UG->set('description', 'Automatically created '.$datestamp);
			$UG->set('parent', 8 ); // hard-coded: all new user groups are children of the "Clients (8)"
			$UG->save();
```
Curiously, I’ve noticed that some of the user groups I’ve deleted via the MODx manager are still present in the database:
```
select * from modx_membergroup_names;
```
What gives? Can I not hard-code the parent like that?
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Everett Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago

Ack, I’m a moron: I was editing the wrong controller.

However, the issue with some residual User Groups persisting in the database is still there -- why don’t those get deleted correctly?
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