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[Steven Carmody <>]

Jim,

any chance you could share some screen snaps of that custom UI ?

Sent from my iPad

> On Aug 8, 2014, at 12:17 AM, Jim Fox 
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> Yes, a custom UI.
> 
> Jim
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Steven Carmody 
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> Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 4:16 PM
> To: Jim Fox
> Cc: Grouper-Users
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] replication to Google, Phase 2 ....
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Aug 7, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Jim Fox 
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>> Our UI that lets people send their groups to Google
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> Jim -- is that UI separate from the grouper UI ? Sounds like it ....
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>> 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 !
>>>