Group Manager Strapi Plugin

A Strapi plugin that lets you organise your collections and components into named, colour coded groups in a dedicated admin panel page.

Features

• Create named groups with a custom colour and icon
• Assign any collection type or component to a group
• Fine grained role permissions (read, create, update, delete)

Preview

Requirements

• Strapi v5 (v5.0.0 or later)
• Node.js ≥ 18

Installation

# npm
npm install strapi-plugin-group-manager

# yarn
yarn add strapi-plugin-group-manager

Then enable the plugin in your Strapi app's config/plugins.ts (or .js):

export default {
  'group-manager': {
    enabled: true,
  },
};

Rebuild and restart your Strapi app:

npm run build
npm run develop

Usage

1. Open the Strapi admin panel.
2. Navigate to Group Manager in the left sidebar.
3. Click Create group to add a new group, give it a name, colour, and icon.
4. Use the Assign button on each group to add collection types or components.

Permissions

Manage access under Settings → Roles in the admin panel. The plugin registers the following permissions:

| Permission | Description | | --- | --- | | plugin::group-manager.access | Access the Group Manager page | | plugin::group-manager.groups.read | View groups | | plugin::group-manager.groups.create | Create groups | | plugin::group-manager.groups.update | Edit groups | | plugin::group-manager.groups.delete | Delete groups |

Development

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Build the plugin
yarn build

# Watch for changes (link to a local Strapi app)
yarn watch:link

# Type-check
yarn test:ts:front
yarn test:ts:back

# Verify plugin structure
yarn verify

License

MIT