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[Scott Koranda <>]

Hi,

> I think we'd need to define special. Perhaps a flag to indicate that the 
> group
> can't be deleted?

I was initially thinking of a column where the values are
enums, such as

GROUPTYPE::COADMINS
GROUPTYPE::COUADMINS
GROUPTYPE::COMEMBERS
GROUPTYPE::COUMEMBERS

But I think having a second additional column that is a flag
to indicate that the group cannot be deleted is also
necessary.

Thoughts?

Scott

> 
> On February 27, 2014 12:59:26 PM EST, Scott Koranda 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     We now have two types of "special" groups: admin and members (and a
>     ticket to change admin to admins). To determine if a group is one of
>     these special groups and therefore might need to be provisioned
>     differently (for example we decided that CO admins can toggle whether
>     admin and members are provisioned into Grouper) we have to parse the
>     name.
> 
>     Note that parsing the name might mean checking if the group is linked
>     to a COU and has a name like 'admins:My COU 01' or 'members: My COU
>     01'.
> 
>     Should we add a column to the cm_co_groups table to record that a
>     group is "special" rather than only encoding it in the name?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Scott
>