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[Chris Hyzer <>]

If you are searching for a subject in general, it is going against the source via the soruces.xml query.

If you are searching for a subject in a group (as you describe), it is going to use the member attributes.

 

The subject id for a source should be something unchanging (and probably opaque), though it is up to you.

 

Yes, these are sources.xml changes, so you are doing the right thing.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

From: Earl Lewis [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 2:30 PM
To: Chris Hyzer; <>
Subject: Re: [grouper-users] UI displaying group members as empty checkboxes

 

Chris,

 

Thanks again for your help and patience. However, you're comments are making me think I'm not understanding just when I thought I was beginning to. How are you distinguishing a "freeform" search from "searching for members in a group by a string"? 

 

What I'm trying to accomplish is to setup the web UI so that when the UI presents a large list of members in a group we can search those members by a variety of attributes to help narrow down that list (perhaps by last name or department number) or find specific members (by email address, full name). 

 

Right now our directory CN is setup to be the subject_id in the group_members table. This is a unique identifier for our users rather than the typical use of common name, I.e. CN. We can search all day by this CN value, however that's not really friendly for users of the UI so we want to let them search group members in the UI by email address, last name, full name, etc…

 

Am I barking up the right tree by making these adjustments in the sources.xml under the grouper.ui-2.1.3/dist/grouper/WEB-INF/classes folder? 

 

Earl

801-581-3635 (office)

801-554-3596 (mobile)

 

On 5/24/13 11:57 AM, "Chris Hyzer" <> wrote:

 

Well, the member search and sort is only used when  searching for members in a group by a string (and maybe other use cases like that).  Not a freeform search.  It is a very specific use case.  Generally subject searches go right to the source when possible.  Granted, we can certainly do more linking to docs in the wiki J

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

From: Earl Lewis []
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 1:55 PM
To: Chris Hyzer; <>
Subject: Re: [grouper-users] UI displaying group members as empty checkboxes

 

I just found the "Member Search and Sort" documentation on the wiki. I'm not sure why it took me so long to find this document. I do know that it is only listed in the "Child pages" of the "Administration Guides" page. It's not shown in any of the sections in the main part of the page. Seems as though it would be very helpful to have a link to this in the "Provisioning and Integration" section as well as the "Grouper UIs" section. The way I was looking at it this is a type of customization for the web UI, but looking there didn't help much.

 

Earl

801-581-3635 (office)

801-554-3596 (mobile)

 

On 5/24/13 10:58 AM, "Earl Lewis" <> wrote:

 

Chris,

 

I'm assuming your comments are similarly applicable to the situation I've been discussing here?

 

Earl

801-581-3635 (office)

801-554-3596 (mobile)

 

On 5/24/13 10:46 AM, "Chris Hyzer" <> wrote:

 

I always do it with sql… I think there might be something there, it just needs to be found and documented, or created if not there.  Will do at some point.  J

 

Something like this might work from GSH:

 

      RegistrySubject registrySubject = new RegistrySubject();

      registrySubject.setId(id);

      registrySubject.setName(name);

      registrySubject.setTypeString(SUBJ_TYPE);

     

      registrySubject.getAttributes(false).put("name", GrouperUtil.toSet("name." + id));

      registrySubject.getAttributes(false).put("loginid", GrouperUtil.toSet("id." + id));

      registrySubject.getAttributes(false).put("description", GrouperUtil.toSet("description." + id));

      registrySubject.getAttributes(false).put("email", GrouperUtil.toSet(id + "@somewhere.someSchool.edu"));

     

      GrouperDAOFactory.getFactory().getRegistrySubject().create(registrySubject);

 

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

From: Rob Gorrell []
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:31 AM
To: Chris Hyzer
Cc:
Subject: Re: [grouper-users] UI displaying group members as empty checkboxes

 

You're right, it was description. I thought it was the description in the grouper_members table and I had inserted one there but saw nothing. I now see its the subjectattribute table which has some relation to the description in grouper_members. i ran this sql and now its displaying correctly:
insert into subjectattribute (subjectId, name, value, searchValue) values('','description','Robert Gorrell RWGORREL','Robert Gorrell RWGORREL');
insert into subjectattribute (subjectId, name, value, searchValue) values('','email','','');
insert into subjectattribute (subjectId, name, value, searchValue) values('','loginid','','');
insert into subjectattribute (subjectId, name, value, searchValue) values('','name','Robert Gorrell','Robert Gorrell');

I'm not sure if there's a gsh command or a proper way to add subjects via gsh that gets these attributes populated. I'm assuming, once i configure the subject API, I'll be mapping in these attributes so when a member is picked, these attributes are automatically loaded in and I want have to worried about adding them after the fact.

Thanks, I appreciate all the help... feel like i'm starting to understand the system a bit.
-Rob

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Chris Hyzer <> wrote:

I think it might be subject name or description.  You might be able to change this in the media.properties

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Rob Gorrell
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:45 AM
To:
Subject: [grouper-users] UI displaying group members as empty checkboxes

 

So I have created my first group, etc:sysadmingroup and placed 4 subjects into it. I did this all through the addSubject and addMember gsh commands. The group functions fine and grants me admin access, but I was noticing when I look at the membership list in the UI, I get four "<checkbox> is a direct member"... but it isn't showing the subjectId or name I had given to my subjects. I would guess the UI is displaying some attribute I have yet to defined for my subjects? can someone explain what attribute this would be and how I go about defining it for the 4 subjects i've hand created?

Thanks,
-Rob


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Robert W. Gorrell
Middleware Engineer, Identity and Access Management

University of NC at Greensboro
336-334-5954

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Robert W. Gorrell
Middleware Engineer, Identity and Access Management

University of NC at Greensboro
336-334-5954