Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

We can add it to the long term wish list.  As for use cases, I think its hard 
to say since there is a workaround (just make a real group members list for 
any group lists which need to be shared, and add that list to the lists).

But if you want an example, here it is.  

For hierarchies, with rollups, sometimes lists are useful.  So you could have 
a group named "org123", and it has a subgroup in the hierarchy called 
"org1234", and the orgs have lists: payrollRead, and payrollWrite.  If 
someone is added to the read or write list of the parent, it should be added 
to the read/write list of the child.  Without being able to add lists to 
lists, then we need to make a group for every list of every group, which 
defeats the purpose of having lists...

Thanks,
Chris

 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Barton 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 6:33 PM
> To: GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> Cc: Chris Hyzer; Tom Zeller; 
> 
> Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] lists of non-members lists for memberships?
> 
> And in that vein, before considering the addition of substantial
> complexity (for developers, and, more importantly, for users), I'd like
> us to discuss the real use cases motivating the feature request.
> 
> Tom
> 
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> > --On 12 June 2009 09:05 -0400 Chris Hyzer 
> > <>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> I know a definite decision was made not to allow composites of
> custom
> >>> lists
> >>
> >> Why?  Just to keep implementation of Grouper simpler?
> > Exactly so.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------
> > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> >