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

--On 13 October 2008 09:07 -0500 Tom Barton 
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 wrote:

> In answer to your question 2, you could instead use the xml-export
> capability to export the group and then import it into the new folder.
> But I haven't yet tried this out to verify that subgroup or composite
> structure us preserved. Perhaps Gary can comment on that before I get the
> chance to test it.
Export and import would work for a simple group i.e. not a composite or one 
with other groups as members, though for it to work you would have to 
either delete the original group after export but before import, or remove 
the id attribute of the group in the export file.

When importing and an id is present Grouper will attempt to recreate the 
group with the same id. This is what you would want if doing a bulk export 
and import between Grouper versions, but does not work well when importing 
to the same repository.

There is a property 'export.group.internal-attributes' which is true by 
default which causes modify times / subjects to be exported, however, 
setting it to false does not stop the id being exported - which it probably 
should do.

I'll raise a Jira issue regarding some tweaks to XML import/export which 
would make it behave 'better'. I'm not sure if some things were broken 
since my original version of the tool or if they never really worked the 
way they should have when importing back into the same repository

Gary



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing