Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

["Black, Carey M." <>]

Richard,

If you are targeting a "big bang cutover" then I think you likely just need 
to walk your "applications" and "create structures in Grouper" with 
WebServices (WS) calls. And copy the memberships too.
        The WebServices calls can do anything a user can do with the UI. ( 
Well, basic functions are all there. AKA : Create/update/delete: group, 
folder, etc...)

        I don't expect that a wizard could/would be triggered by a WS call. 
But I could be wrong.


NOTE: If you are referring to 
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+new+template+wizard ( 
by "application template" ) then you could develop such a template for user's 
to manually create new applications after conversion.
        Or you could write UI hooks (REF: 
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Hooks ) too. 
                Example: A new folder is created "here" (or named "foo-*", 
etc...) and you create sub structures, establish access controls, etc.. for 
the user.

         Your choice between a "wizard" and "hooks" likely depends on your 
taste/style/functionality needs.
        IHMO:
                A wizard would be for a "Ask a human questions and get 
variable outputs/responses."
                A Hook would be more for a "see 'X', then do 'Y'" kind of 
responses. (NOTE: hooks can be triggered by UI, Web Services and/or GSH[AKA 
API] events.

HTH.

-- 
Carey Matthew 

-----Original Message-----
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<> On Behalf Of Richard Frovarp
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 5:42 PM
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Subject: [grouper-users] Large scale template use

We're spinning up use Grouper to replace our custom engineered solution. 
In our old system we have about 1,900 "apps" we would need to import 
into the system. We want to do something very similar to the application 
template in the Grouper UI. Is there a way to trigger that templating 
through web services or GSH? Once we get the folder structure with 
permissions is there, it will be easy for us to use either gsh or web 
services to populate the groups and updater groups.

If we have to, we can make Selenium do it, but looking to see if there 
is a more official / less brittle method.

Thanks,

Richard