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["Dr. Loris Bennett" <>]

Hi Richard,

After going through a phase of being confused about stems and groups in
terms of
setting up an organisational structure myself, I decided on the
following
approach:

1. The org structure is represented purely as a hierarchy of stems e.g.

      ncl
        ncl:cs
          ncl:cs:iss
            ncl:cs:iss:middleware
            ncl:cs:iss:middleearth
            ncl:cs:iss:middleear

2. Each stem may then have a number of groups (the elements with an
asterisk
   below whose names are related to the members the group contains e.g.

      ncl
        *all
        *sor
        ncl:cs
          *all
          *sor
          ncl:cs:iss
            *all
            *sor
            ncl:cs:iss:middleware
              *all
              *sor
            ncl:cs:iss:middleearth
              *all
              *sor
            ncl:cs:iss:middleear
              *all
              *sor
   
   where the sor-groups are source-of-record groups of people associated
with
   the corresponding org unit and are automatically filled by, say,
extracting
   data from a HR database. The all-groups are also automatically
created and
   contain the sor group of the current org unit plus all sor groups
from lower
   down in the heirarchy.

This can be achieved using the grouperLoader custom types. Chris is the
source
of all wisdom in this area, but, thanks to Chris, I have working
examples of how
to set this up, too, should it be what you are after.

Cheers

Loris

 
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:17 -0500, 

 wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am relatively new to using Grouper. I am in the process of doing some 
> testing, I am trying to incorporate Grouper in the management of who can 
> book different rooms within the University campus.
> 
> I have created a structure for rooms, each building is a stem, with the 
> individual rooms being the groups. Each of these groups will have members 
> who can book the room, for example all staff within ISS can book room 
> CR199. I have created a structure of the Universities departments, they 
> take the following kind of structure in grouper
> 
> NewcastleUni(stem) > Central Services(stem) > ISS(stem) > Middleware Team 
> (Group)
> 
> So the stem, ISS, has a number of ISS departments as groups. My question 
> is, is there any way of adding all members within the ISS stem, to the 
> member list of another group i.e group CR199. The only way I can see so far 
> is selecting the individual departments and adding them that way. So in 
> effect I want room CR199 to inherit all the members within the ISS stem, so 
> all staff within ISS can book CR199, is this possible?
> 
> Hope the above is clear, any assistance/clarification would be a great help.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Richard
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