Is it me or is Blender 2.79 making those dopesheet groups by himself?
I mean, i just animated a cube with autokeying enabled, and it created groups (location, rotation, scaling).
Just wanted to make sure i didn't do something special, if 2.79 actuallu autocreate groups then that's great ^^
blender creates a locrotscale group automatically. But if you have user prefs option "insert needed" ticked and then change location it creates a location group. If you then scale it will add a scale group , and then rotate... you guessed it it adds a rotation group. So Its behaviour is based on your settings.