Hammer change hostgroup does not work but works in GUI

Support
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In the Katello GUI you can go to All Hosts then select a host and give it a Hostgroup name when the only thing configured in the Hostgroup is the name of the group.

When you try the following via hammer however:
hammer host update --name td3us1tdsmd01-host01.***.net --hostgroup-id 6
The result is:
Could not update the host:
Content view can’t be blank
Lifecycle environment can’t be blank

I am running:
foreman-1.17.1-1.el7
katello-3.6.0-3.el7

I am not happy that hammer is doing this as I just want to use the hostgoup for an ansible script. But should not both the GUI and hammer produce the same results?

Thanks.

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So this issue is related to hostgroups not having a content view and lifecycle env defined.

It would be nice if there was a configuration that permitted users who aren’t using puppet to use hostgroups to organize hosts for ansible consumption without defining these values.