Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

>
> Shilen Patel wrote:
> > Should we also keep a history of the display names?  Before a group
> is
> > moved, somebody might have an application that finds the group using
> the
> > display name rather than the name.   The GroupNameFilter for instance
> > allows that.  Realistically, I don't know if anybody would do that
> and
> > if they do, maybe they should just be told to modify the application
> to
> > search by group name prior to the move.
>
> I think not. It's not indexical.
>
> Tom

I agree here (obviously since its how I wrote the doc :) ), but here is the 
doc on a group name from the UI:

The ID Path <name> is unique for each group and should rarely change.  It can 
be used by other systems to refer to this group.

Chris