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[Chris Hyzer <>]

In 2.0 there is UI support for the attribute framework.  Its not as easy to 
use as the old one, but its possible...  Is that an option?  In 2.2 we will 
make it as easy as the old attribute framework...

Thanks,
Chris

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 On Behalf Of Peter DiCamillo
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:12 PM
To: Tom Zeller
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Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Change log entries for group attributes?

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