Question Minecraft- Group display and prefixes not working.

On my server, i downloaded the following: PermissionsEX, ScoreboardStats, Essentials, EssentialsChat, HolographicDisplays, KitAdder, and SilkSpawners.

i made 5 groups on my server called Owner, Admin, Elite, VIP, and Member. i went into my PermissionsEx permissions file and changed it to the following:

Code:

groups:
  Member:
    options:
      default: 'true'
      build: 'true'
      rank: '1000'
      rank-ladder: Main
      weight: '5'
    permissions:
    - modifyworld.*
    - essentials.kit
    - essentials.kits.member
    - permission.node.one
    - permission.node.two
    - permission.node.three
    - permission.node.four
    - permission.warps.*
    - permission.warp
    - permission.warp.list
    - essentials.warp
    - essentials.warps.*
    - essentials.warp.list
  VIP:
    options:
      default: 'false'
      build: 'true'
      rank: '900'
      rank-ladder: Main
      weight: '4'
    inheritance:
    - Guest
    permissions:
    - essentials.kits.vip
    - -essentials.kits.member
    - permission.node.give
    - permission.node.six
    - permission.node.seven
    - permission.node.eight
  Elite:
    options:
      default: 'false'
      build: 'true'
      rank: '200'
      rank-ladder: Main
      weight: '3'
    inheritance:
    - Vip    permissions: null
    - essentials.kits.elite
    - -essentials.kits.vip
    - permission.node.nine
    - permission.node.ten
    - permission.node.eleven
    - permission.node.twelve
  Admin:
    options:
      default: 'false'
      build: 'true'
      rank: '100'
      rank-ladder: Main
      weight: '2'
    inheritance:
    - Elite
    permissions:
    - essentials.kits.admin
    - -essentials.kits.mod
    - permission.node.thirteen
    - permission.node.fourteen
    - permission.node.fifteen
    - permission.node.sixteen
  Owner:
    options:
      default: 'false'
      build: 'true'
      rank: '1'
      rank-ladder: Main
      weight: '1'
    permissions:
    - -negated.nodes.go.above.wildcards
    - '*'
schema-version: 1
users:
  6b4cebb9-2bc9-4cfc-9364-ecbe28037b1c:
    permissions:
    - '*'
    group:
    - Owner
    options:
      name: LukeHoss
  fe8b5197-ca1f-4414-aa35-727a4689c105:
    group:    - Member
    options:
      name: AnniePoohBear

then went to my Essentials config.yml file and changed the EssentialsChat section and changed it to this:

Code:

############################################################
# +------------------------------------------------------+ #
# |                   EssentialsChat                     | #
# +------------------------------------------------------+ #
############################################################

# This section requires the EssentialsChat.jar to work.

chat:

  # If EssentialsChat is installed, this will define how far a player's voice travels, in blocks.  Set to 0 to make all chat global.
  # Note that users with the "essentials.chat.spy" permission will hear everything, regardless of this setting.
  # Users with essentials.chat.shout can override this by prefixing text with an exclamation mark (!)
  # Users with essentials.chat.question can override this by prefixing text with a question mark (?)
  # You can add command costs for shout/question by adding chat-shout and chat-question to the command costs section."
  radius: 0

  # Chat formatting can be done in two ways, you can either define a standard format for all chat.
  # Or you can give a group specific chat format, to give some extra variation.
  # For more information of chat formatting, check out the wiki: http://wiki.ess3.net/wiki/Chat_Formatting

  format: '<{DISPLAYNAME}> {MESSAGE}'
  #format: '&7[{GROUP}]&r {DISPLAYNAME}&7:&r {MESSAGE}'

  group-formats:
    Owner: '&4[&cOwner&4] {DISPLAYNAME}&4:&c&l {MESSAGE}'
  Admin: '&9[&bAdmin&9] {DISPLAYNAME}&7:&9 {MESSAGE}'
  Elite: '&3[&aElite&3] {DISPLAYNAME}&7:&f {MESSAGE}'
  VIP: '&6[&eVIP&6] {DISPLAYNAME}&7:&6 {MESSAGE}'
  Member: '&7[&rMember&7] {DISPLAYNAME}&7:&7 {MESSAGE}'

  # If you are using group formats make sure to remove the '#' to allow the setting to be read.

i started my server back up and added myself to 'Owner' and it worked, BUT when i logged in as my sister and added her to 'Member' and typed in chat i had NO prefix, NO colored chat (like it should of been according to the perms and config documents.) please help me out with this, i have been doing research asking others (not on here) who know about this and changed my coding MANY times and it still didnt work, but 'owner' did. So i finally decided that i am stuck and posted this.

(If you need any more info in my plugins folder i am happy to post it)

and before you ask, yes, i did change 'add-prefix-suffix: false' to true.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

EDIT by LukeHoss: i just got a account on the forums, i didn't know, sry.