Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Jim Fox <>]

> I assume the group in Google is used for, among other things, email
> communication between students and the course instructor(s). Is that
> correct?
>
> Is there any concern that when the Google group is deleted the archive
> of those email threads for the course is lost? Or is that just an
> accepted constraint?

It is accepted behavior.  People know that course groups and their related 
emails are gone after a year.  We don't think of our group service as a 
archive.

Jim

> Thanks again,
>
> Scott
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Jim Fox 
> <>
>  wrote:
> > We keep a year's worth of course groups.  Once a course group
> > is older than that it is deleted from our group service and
> > consequently deleted from google.  And deleted from our AD.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Scott Koranda wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:38:58
> > > From: Scott Koranda 
> > > <>
> > > To: Steven Carmody 
> > > <>
> > > Cc: Grouper-Users 
> > > <>
> > > Subject: Re: [grouper-users] replication to Google, Phase 2 ....
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I know August is a crummy time to ask leading questions since many
> > > people are out on vacation/holiday, but if anybody is provisioning
> > > from Grouper to Google and has thought about what to do for "delete" I
> > > would be grateful if you could drop me a note.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > > We are interested to know how other campuses deal with "delete" for
> > > > groups, and
> > > > in particular course groups. In the current deployment when the course
> > > > group
> > > > is removed from the SOR (LDAP in this case), the loader of course removes
> > > > it
> > > > from Grouper. The custom provisioning code at this point does not call
> > > > the Directory
> > > > API 'delete' call for the group but instead uses the Groups Setting
> > > > API 'patch' call
> > > > to change the resource setting for 'archiveOnly' to 'true'. The
> > > > primary reason for doing
> > > > this is to not "lose" associated "buckets" of information that might
> > > > have accumulated
> > > > when the group was in use.
> > > >
> > > > What approaches to "delete" for course groups are other campuses taking?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Scott K