Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Steven Carmody <>]

On 2/18/11 9:58 AM, Richard James wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if anyone can share any experiences/approaches for
> representing a hierarchy of people in Grouper. At Newcastle we have
> been loading in an organisational hierarchy, so the hierarchical
> relationship is people to team and team to department. We now have
> use cases which require representing a people management hierarchy
> i.e. person to line manager to department head and so on. As ever
> with this being a University, you have the exceptions where people
> report to 2 line managers which adds a level of complexity.

I've heard people describe using a standard ldap attribute for this 
purpose -- ie each person object would include an attribute whose value 
was the DN of that person's supervisor. And so on, up the tree.....

That works fine for strictly hierarchical organizations; however, 
campuses sometimes split people between two departments, so this process 
gets ugly very quickly.

I'll leave it to you to figure out what value to assign as a faculty 
member's supervisor -- presumably the President of the University.  ;-)