Ka0s WhatGroup

WhatGroup remembers what group you signed up for via the Group Finder tool. Once you get accepted to a group, shut the LFG window, and the details are still in front of you: the group's name, the instance, the type (Mythic+, Raid, Dungeon, PvP and the rest), who is leading, and the playstyle.

It tells you twice, on purpose. A chat line lands a moment after you join, tagged with a cyan [WG] and ending in a "view details" link. A popup window carries the same fields plus a teleport button for the dungeon. The chat line you can trim down to only the fields you care about; the popup always shows everything.

Screenshots

Popup dialog

Chat message with clickable link

Usage

WhatGroup starts working the moment it loads, with nothing to switch on. Apply to a group through the Premade Group Finder, join it, and the summary prints while the popup opens — instantly, unless you have asked for a pause of up to ten seconds under Chat. Join in the middle of a fight and the popup holds, tells you it is holding, and opens the second you drop out of combat.

The popup is six rows: group, instance, type, leader, playstyle, and the teleport. That last one is the row people install this for. It is a real spell button, so clicking it casts. It sits grayed out until you have learned that dungeon's teleport, and grayed again while the spell recharges, with the time left spelled out beside the icon and a cooldown swipe over it; a dungeon with no teleport at all just skips the row. The chat line marks the same states with (not learned) and (on cooldown). Drag the window by its title bar and it remembers where you left it. ESC or the Close button puts it away; /wg show, or that "view details" link, brings it back for as long as you are still in the group. To watch the whole thing without joining anything, /wg test runs it on sample data, and the Test button on the Chat tab does the same.

Three tabs hold the tailoring. Six toggles on the Chat tab decide what the join summary contains — instance, type, leader, playstyle, the link, the teleport spell — and Print to Chat turns the message off entirely; the mirror of that is Open Automatically under Popup, which skips the window and leaves you the chat line, with Width and Height beside it. The Master controls tab is the one every Ka0s addon shares, so "how do I turn this off, make it smaller, put it back" is always in the same place: Enable WhatGroup, General visibility (always, only in combat, only out of combat, or never), Master scale, Master alpha, Lock frame for when you keep nudging the window by accident, Debug console, and then Reset position and Reset all settings. Every row of every tab, and where each one is stored, is written up in docs/settings-panel.md.

All of it is reachable from chat as well. /wg config opens the panel, /wg list dumps every setting and its value, /wg get and /wg set read and write one by path (switches take on, off or toggle), /wg reset <path> restores one and /wg resetall restores the lot behind a confirmation. When something misbehaves, /wg debug on starts logging and /wg debug opens the window holding it.

Everything else is configuration, and it lives in two places: the Ka0s WhatGroup page in the game's Settings → AddOns list, and /wg (or /whatgroup), which prints the full command list.

How it works

Click Apply in the Premade Group Finder and WhatGroup quietly writes down what the tile said. Applications queue, so four in flight at once do not confuse it — the details waiting for you when an invite lands are the ones belonging to the group you actually joined. Then the chat message prints and the popup opens, instantly by default, or after the pause you set under Chat → Notification Delay if you would rather let the zone-in settle first.

The group info does not outlive the session. It is dropped the moment you leave the group, which is exactly why /wg show stops answering then. Your settings persist, and so do the places you dragged the two windows to. The machinery is in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.

FAQ

Troubleshooting

Issues and feature requests

All bugs, feature requests, and outstanding work are tracked at https://github.com/tusharsaxena/WhatGroup/issues. Please file new reports there rather than as comments — the issue tracker is the single source of truth for the project's backlog.

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