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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

If you look at the import schema there is a choice between data and 
dataList tags. dataList can include group and / or stem tags which can list 
members, or subjects with privileges, as appropriate. So, you should be 
able to minimally represent groups using a name attribute and list members 
per the QuickStart example. Groups can be in any order and you don't need 
to nest groups within stems.

This method will not attempt to create missing groups or update group 
attributes.

Gary

--On 09 June 2008 22:36 -0500 Tom Barton 
<>
 wrote:

> There is, but it may take a thorough reading of
> <https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Import-Export>.
> And, depending on exactly how you will proceed, you might need to use a
> non-default import.properties file. The default is buried in the source
> at src/grouper/edu/internet2/middleware/grouper/import.properties. Copy
> it to wherever you run your xml.import ant task and modify it as needed.
>
> Alternatively, you could do a quick and dirty conversion from flatfile to
> grouper shell commands that you give to gsh in batch. See
> <https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/GrouperShell+%28
> gsh%29>.
>
> And Chris is working on a contributed loader, but it's not in finished
> form.
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas M Goerger wrote:
> > So, the quickstart xml file is indicative of the amount of information
> > that you need to have in order to add users to existing groups?  What if
> > I've got groups created, and just want to add some users using a flat
> > file?  Is there no way to just update group information using the
> > import-xml task?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tom Barton wrote:
> >
> > > The grouper QuickStart tarball has quickstart.xml in its root directory.
> > >
> > > <http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/groups/grouper/grouper/1.3.0/group
> > > er-qs-1.3.0b.tgz>
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > Thomas M Goerger wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to import a number of users to groups using the xml import
> > > > function, and I'm not sure of what information grouper is looking for
> > > > to find the groups.  I'm parsing a flat file full of ldap information
> > > > into an xml document I'm creating.  So, I've created a listing of some
> > > > of the group information, followed by a list of the subjects after
> > > > this.  I've gotten the task to accept my xml document's formatting,
> > > > but none of the users are appearing in the database.  I'm assuming
> > > > that I'm missing something in my document that is causing the problem.
> > > > What's the minimum amount of information about a group that Grouper
> > > > needs to import users through the xml-import task?  All I'd like to
> > > > enter in is the name of the group, or its extension, but that doesn't
> > > > seem to work.  Do you need the ID?  Anybody have any examples of an
> > > > import doc that they wouldn't mind sharing?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Tom Goerger
> > > > University of Minnesota
> > > > Internet Services



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