The group page's push-to-all controls are gone, not deprecated - #170
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These pages were written while the controls carried a deprecation notice and said so: "still on the group page, marked deprecated, removed in a later release". fogproject #1651 is that release, so the pages now describe a state that does not exist. The map of where each setting went is the part worth keeping, and it is unchanged -- that is what someone hunting for the image field needs. What changes is the tense, plus an explicit note that the controls are GONE rather than moved or hidden, because "I cannot find it" and "it must be somewhere else on this page" are different searches. Two additions. Location and OU join the table: the plugins had their own group tabs doing the same push and those went the same way, so the same question will arrive about them. And the hosts page notes that plugins can contribute to the mass edit form, since a reader who runs those plugins will see fields there that the built-in list does not mention. The reference page keeps its pushed-values section rather than deleting it, under a warning that it is 1.5 behavior. It explains a class of question that keeps arriving from 1.5 installs -- values sitting on a host with no record of how they got there -- and deleting it would leave that unanswerable. The AD page's callout said the group tab was deprecated but still worked. It is now a plain statement that 1.6 has no group AD tab, with the reason it went.
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These pages were written while the controls carried a deprecation notice, and said so — "still on the group page in 1.6, marked deprecated ... removed in a later release". FOGProject/fogproject#1651 is that release, so the pages now describe a state that does not exist.
What stays
The "Where each setting went" table is unchanged. That is the part someone hunting for the image field actually needs, and it was right the first time.
What changes
The tense — plus an explicit callout that the controls are gone, not moved or hidden:
That distinction matters because "I can't find it" and "it must be elsewhere on this page" send people looking in different places.
Also updated: the group page's tab-by-tab list (General now holds only name, description and Group Order; the Image and Active Directory tabs are gone), and the note on why Power Management survives — it creates tasks rather than copying a value, which is the distinction the whole decision turns on.
Two additions
Location and OU join the table. The plugins had their own group tabs doing the same push, and those went the same way in FOGProject/fog-plugins#36 — so the same question will arrive about them.
The hosts page notes that plugins can contribute to the mass edit form, since a reader running those plugins will see fields there that the built-in list does not mention.
One judgement call
The reference page keeps its pushed-values section rather than deleting it, under a warning that it describes 1.5 behavior. It explains a class of question that will keep arriving from 1.5 installs — values sitting on a host with no record of how they got there — and deleting it would leave that unanswerable.
The AD page's callout said the group tab was deprecated but still worked. It is now a plain statement that 1.6 has no group AD tab, with the reason it went.
Verification
Builds clean — no errors, no broken links. No "deprecated" language remains on any of the three pages.