Answers.Body: <p>That's a good suggestion. I've also heard the suggestion to provide an admin option to "lock" smart groups to prevent manual adding/removing of contacts.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: That idea, Coleman, is a very good one. How should I go about finding how much it would cost? –
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Answers.Text: There's an issue already open about that here =] - https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17257
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Answers.Body: <p>What version of CiviCRM are you using Andy? I have heard the same experience from customers in the past, I think it makes sense to highlight the difference between smart groups and 'static' groups.</p>
  
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Body: <p>One of my users has corrupted most of their smart groups by manually adding &amp; deleting contacts.  Talking to the user, she was not aware of what was a smart group and what was a regular group.  in fact, in normal use there is no visual difference (unless I'm missing something). However, in 'contacts/manage groups' menu option it is clearly displayed but not otherwise.
  Clearly indicating that a group is smart would avoid this problem - use a different colour? I have noticed other questions about smart groups that indicate corruption caused by users manually adding contacts.  Do other users think this would be worthwhile?  </p>
  
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Comments.Text: This is for 4.6 but applies to all releases as far as I am aware.
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Comments.Text: We have tended to put (Smart) or similar on the end of ours, even though they are indicated as (Smart Group) in the list. For some reason we have a small number named by us as smart but that are not actually smart.
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Title: Should smart groups be highlighted so users are aware they are smart and so avoid corrupting them?
ThreadText: # Should smart groups be highlighted so users are aware they are smart and so avoid corrupting them?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-05)
  
  One of my users has corrupted most of their smart groups by manually adding & deleting contacts. Talking to the user, she was not aware of what was a smart group and what was a regular group. in fact, in normal use there is no visual difference (unless I'm missing something). However, in 'contacts/manage groups' menu option it is clearly displayed but not otherwise.
  Clearly indicating that a group is smart would avoid this problem - use a different colour? I have noticed other questions about smart groups that indicate corruption caused by users manually adding contacts. Do other users think this would be worthwhile?
  
  **Tags:** smartgroups
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: This is for 4.6 but applies to all releases as far as I am aware.  
  > **username_1**: We have tended to put (Smart) or similar on the end of ours, even though they are indicated as (Smart Group) in the list. For some reason we have a small number named by us as smart but that are not actually smart.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-10-06. Score: 4
  
  That's a good suggestion. I've also heard the suggestion to provide an admin option to "lock" smart groups to prevent manual adding/removing of contacts.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: That idea, username_2, is a very good one. How should I go about finding how much it would cost? –  
  > **username_3**: There's an issue already open about that here =] - https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17257  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-10-06. Score: 2
  
  What version of CiviCRM are you using Andy? I have heard the same experience from customers in the past, I think it makes sense to highlight the difference between smart groups and 'static' groups.
  
  
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