Child groups with all parents disabled shows in group list

Question

I'am currently using Civicrm version 5.3.1 with drupal 7.59.
Steps to replicate:

1. Create one group, parent A.
2. Create a one group, child A and assign parent A group created above as parent.
3. Disable parent A group.
4. Go to contacts->manage groups. You are unable to see both parent and child groups.
5. Click on any search criteria. Unclick it. You can see the child A group with title as Child A Child of:. With null value for parent

How it works currently: If a child group has multiple parent groups and one of them is disabled, the child group should to show up on group selector lists. This has been fixed here https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-20934.

If all parent group(s) are disabled the child group still shows up in search mode.

Is this the expected behaviour?

Shouldn't the child group be removed from the selector lists if all parent group(s) are disabled?

Answer 1

Well, you could still have contacts assigned to a (enabled) child group, so I don't find it very surprising you can use it on search.

More generally, what enabled/disabled means in the context of group hierarchy is probably not fully clear, and it's likely that different users expect different things, and it's especially true with multiple hierarchical relationships.

Wouldn't it be easier you disable the child groups when you disable the parent (assuming it's not happening too often)?