Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Some of us were having an out of band discussion on UI capabilities for 
listing a group's membership. We appear to have settled on the UI 
allowing the user to select whether they want immediate only, effective 
only, or immediate + effective memberships listed.

This gave rise to the first of 2 thoughts in my head. If a listed member 
is another group, can it be presented as a clickable link to take the 
user to the group summary page for that group? That would take the user 
a step in the "hasMember" direction in the graph of all groups in the 
registry.

My second though is that it would be useful to also be able to navigate 
in the "isMemberOf" direction. That would mean that for any subject 
(especially the 'group' subjectType) the UI should list the groups of 
which that subject is a member, and there'd again be the issue of 
selecting whether those memberships will be immediate only, effective 
only, or immediate + effective.

Are such things already in the plans for the UI?

By the way, I'm using the terms "hasMember" and "isMemberOf" quite 
specifically. Cf. 
http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/docs/draft-internet2-mace-dir-group-membership-latest.htm

Tom