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[Tom Barton <>]

A group in France has made a new UI for grouper that's a good balance 
between comprehensiveness and ease of use. There's a link in the 
attached mail to a screencast.

This might provide another alternative for a groups management UI in 
comanage (in addition to grouper's Lite UI). The downside is that it's 
still all about groups, not collab or app access management. But perhaps 
it's configurable enough to soften that, dunno.

I've asked them if they'd be willing to contrib the code, if they'd be 
open to continued enhancement by the community, etc.

Tom

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• From: Emily Eisbruch <>
• To: Grouper Dev <>, Christian Daviau <>
• Subject: [grouper-dev] Fwd: ESCO-Grouper UI
• Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:17:53 -0400
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Hi Christian,

Thank you for this excellent information on the ESCO-Grouper UI and how it uses Fluid elements. I am forwarding it on to the Grouper Developers List.

- Emily

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From: Christian Daviau <>

Date: July 22, 2010 7:40:44 AM EDT

To: Emily Eisbruch <>

Cc: Thomas BIZOUERNE <>, ardem <>

Subject: ESCO-Grouper UI

Hi Emily !

I send you this message because I don't know for who I can send this information (on a grouper list ?).

I told you, few time ago, that we have a UI for grouper named ESCO-Grouper UI.
I saw, in the "Grouper Call 7-July-2010", you want to explore Fuild capabilities for UIs. ESCO-Grouper UI uses Fluid and we have good returns of our users.
ESCO-Grouper UI can be used in servlet or portlet mode (for uPortal by example).
It's possible to make pluggins to extend the capabilities of the UI. For exemple, we made the "dynamic group" module, but we can imagine a module for
discussion lists, for samba shares...
ESCO-Grouper UI uses Grouper WS and Grouper API, actually in 1.5 version.

This UI is full configurable :
- screens (fields, names of the elements, colums of the tables,...)
- search filters,
- ...

It was developped with fuild elements for a user friendly interface :
- contextual menu depends of the rights of the user,
- drag and drop to move groups,
- rights displayed when hovering the mouse for all the elements of the tree,
- subscriptions by a simple click,
- dynamics groups (whith the dynamic group hook in Grouper),
-...

It proposes a lot of functionnalities :
- possibility of differents profiles definition : all fonctionnalities, only the tree of the folders and groups, only the subscription page...
- Online Help on each page,
- research of people in groups,
- ...

To view the possibilities of ESCO-Grouper UI, you can find demonstration movies at http://pub.giprecia.fr/esco-portail/Grouper/presentations/ (ogv and avi formats). "ESCO-Grouper_more" is a complement for "ESCO-Grouper"...
If you want, we can give you a account to try ESCO-Grouper UI.

I hope you will like this interface that we can put at your disposal if you wish.

Best regards,
Christian.

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