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- Special considerations before modifying an include or exclude group:
- Who is performing the addition or deletion from the include and exclude groups? If it as a grouping owner, you may proceed.
- Is your application opting in or out on behalf of a grouping member? If so, you should check whether the owner allowed that.
- Determine the full path to the grouping's include and exclude groups. Simply append :include or :exclude to the grouping path, e.g.
- hawaii.edu:custom:uhm:manoa-math-club:include
- hawaii.edu:custom:uhm:manoa-math-club:exclude
- Use these Grouper web service to add or delete members from the include or exclude groups.
- REQUIRED: set this Grouper attribute to the current date and time, but truncate the seconds portion:
- The attribute name is uh-settings:attributes:for-groups:last-modified:yyyymmddThhmm
- The attribute name in the web service call is referred to as wsAttributeDefNameName. See example below.
- Set the attribute for the include or exclude group you are modifying, not the grouping path itself.
- Use the YYYYMMDDTHHMM format for the attribute value, e.g.
- 20140315T1915 (March 15, 2014 7:15:59 PM, note how we truncated the seconds, even if this should have been rounded to 7:16 PM)
- Please make sure your clock is synchronized with a time server.
- Use this Grouper web service to assign the attribute:
A future version of Grouper will support RabbitMQ messaging, and we should then do away with this timestamp requirement.