Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Jim Fox <>]

Our UI that lets people send their groups to Google includes a setting for 
"who can send to the group".  We always set a "no one can view the 
membership" flag.  I think that was to prevent leaking of membership 
viewer controls.

Jim


On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Steven Carmody wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:11:51
> From: Steven Carmody 
> <>
> To: Grouper-Users 
> <>
> Subject: [grouper-users] replication to Google, Phase 2 ....
>
> Hi,
>
> Like a growing number of schools, we have implemented a mechanism to 
> replicate group memberships from Grouper to GAE. The initial implementation 
> was very basic, and will create a group in GAE, and then manage the 
> membership on an ongoing basis.
>
> Initially, we were doing this with Course groups, and a small number of 
> department-oriented groups. However, we're in the process of delegating to 
> departments the ability and authority to create and mange groups to meet 
> their local needs. We're discovering that people use groups for different 
> purposes (duh ! ), and that in some cases they would like the properties of 
> the target google group to be set differently from the defaults. This isn't 
> really a surprise, and we expect to see the same sort of requests when we 
> start replicating to AD in the next few weeks.
>
> We're interested in starting a conversation about how to address these 
> requirements. We're wondering whether other campuses have started to develop 
> ways to address these sorts of requirements.
>
> Looking forward to an interesting conversation !