Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Steven Carmody <>]

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On Aug 7, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Jim Fox 
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 wrote:

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> Our UI that lets people send their groups to Google

Jim -- is that UI separate from the grouper UI ? Sounds like it ....


> 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 !
>>