Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Peter DiCamillo <>]

I'm trying to write code we won't be ashamed to share :-)

There's no support in the current Grouper UI for the attribute 
framework, is there? We're considering whether we can defer supporting 
alternate names for the Google groups.

Peter

Tom Zeller wrote:
> > We're trying to use the change log to implement near-realtime group
> > provisioning, and as part of that, using group types and attributes to
> > control provisioning. We get change log entries when a type is added or
> > removed from a group. However, as far as I can tell, no change log entries
> > are generated for changes to group attributes.
> >
> > The use case for this is that we use the group type "GoogleGroup" to specify
> > that a group should be provisioned to Google Groups. We want to allow the
> > group name in Google to be different than the Grouper group name. We planned
> > to do that by having a "googleName" attribute associated with the
> > "GoogleGroup" type. The attribute would contain the group name to use for
> > Google. However, that won't work if we don't get change log entries for
> > group attribute additions, changes, and deletions.
> >
> > If this doesn't work with the change log now, would it be feasible to add?
> > Any other ideas for a solution? We have the requirement that it must be
> > possible to use the Grouper UI to manage the name we use for the Google
> > group.
>
> I think you need to use the attribute framework rather than old-style
> attributes.
>
> And ... as I mentioned to other folks from Brown, I hope you will open
> source your code.
>
> TomZ