Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Kathryn Huxtable wrote:
> Obviously I know I’ll do it via the API, but supposing I have several 
> different kinds of groups, e.g. LDAP groups in my SunJava directory, 
> attributes in ou=people objects, Exchange distribution lists, etc. How 
> do I distinguish among these based on information in Grouper?

I'll assume you mean that you'd like grouper groups to be selectively 
provisioned in places and ways like you've mentioned, and your question 
is how to indicate that a particular grouper group should be provisioned 
in one way or another.

> Is there a way to associate extra attributes with groups such that the 
> UI can administer them?

Yes. I have on my todo list to write a page for the wiki about how use 
the XML import tool to load the definitions of custom group types and 
attributes into your Groups Registry, but once they're there you can 
manage them in the UI. The 2nd part of the tutorial 
<http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/groups/grouper/grouper-1.0-RC1/tutorial/UI-help.html> 
shows you how.

And for the impatient (and aren't we all?), you can look at the 
<metadata> element in quickstart.xml to see how some custom types and 
attributes are declared in XML. Basically, follow that example and 
import your custom extensions using "ant xml-import". There's a version 
of this at 
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/download/attachments/1998/metadata.xml>.

Tom