Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> The search function that I'm seeing my install go with is the
> searchSubject function.  I don't see any way to get the UI to search in
> any other fashion.  Are these searches used by Grouper from somewhere
> else?  Is there a way to get the UI to see these search options?

Yeah, Grouper internally uses different mechanisms... e.g. when you display a 
list of users (showing their description), it should use the "searchSubject" 
sources.xml query [I just verified this].  When you search for a subject from 
the screen it uses the "search" sources.xml query.

The "search" query is the one used when searching from the UI.  If there were 
a way to customize it, I would assume it would configured in 
media.properties, and I don't see a setting there.  The users cant pick the 
algorithm.  If you want to change the query, I think you are safe to edit the 
"search" query in the sources.xml to whatever you want.

> Okay, that's understandable.  Is there a way then to just have Grouper
> look at only the subjectID as the description when displaying the
> membership of a group?  When you're displaying something like 2000+
> group members, its a bit slow on the LDAP side, so doing something like 
> this,
> and hitting the Oracle DB would be a lot quicker.  Would Grouper
> recognize SubjectID as a valid description anywhere?

I tried this, and if you change the media.properties:

subject.display.default=id

This shows the id, not description, but it does go to the subject source 
anyways...   What is your ideal solution here?

1. Not show so many members at once (page them)?
2. Show the id without going to subject source?
3. Resolve the attributes in a batch (not sure if this is possible in ldap, 
but it is possible in sql)

None of these work in grouper now, but we could work on a change request...


> Could you do something like displaying two param-values in this
> section?
> I tried this, and only got the last one referenced, but perhaps someone
> that knows xml better than I might know how to do this.

I don't think that is possible, the solution is to either edit the 
description field from the subject source, or I think you could make a custom 
JSP tile (let us know if you want to go that route).  Or we could make a 
change request to allow multiple fields in this config or the 
media.properties one...

>
> The other problem with this that I'm running into is that when I change
> the description attribute, the members that I've already got loaded are
> no
> longer recognized.  It seems like Grouper is hanging onto this
> information
> somewhere, so it doesn't want to display the change.  So, if I've
> changed
> the Description attribute from say, OfficialName to UID, and try to
> display a group, I get a 'not found' message.  I can search for one of
> these members using the search, and it displays correctly, but choosing
> this user gives a 'not found' message again.  Seems like the group
> information for this user is messed up somehow, and I'd have to reload
> the
> database to get it to sync up again.  It doesn't seem like this should
> be
> necessary.  Even restarting Tomcat and emptying browser cache doesn't
> seem
> to fix this issue.  Has this been seen before?

You are saying you change the description element in the sources.xml and then 
you have issues where you restart tomcat and you get problems?  If there log 
entries associated with this, we would be interested.

Sorry that this is not an instant solution, thanks for patience.

Kind regards,
Chris