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User TypeDescriptionCan use hawaii.edu/uhgroupings to perform these operations:
Grouping Superuser

Any person who has been designated as a Grouper administrator.

  • Can do everything in UH Grouper (and therefore UH Groupings)
Grouping Owner

Any person who is responsible for a grouping. The first owner requests for the creation of a grouping. That request must specify the basis and destination (if any) of the grouping.

 

  • Can designate other people as Grouping Owners.

  • Can add or delete people from the include and exclude groups.

  • Can specify whether opt-in or opt-out is allowed for the grouping.
  • Can enable or disable membership publication to a LISTSERV list for grouping
  • Cannot change the basis using hawaii.edu/uhgroupings.  Must request these changes or it can be done through the API described on this page.
Grouping MemberAny person who is a member of a grouping, regardless of whether the membership comes from the basis or the include group.
  • Can opt in or opt out of a grouping, assuming the grouping owner allowed it
Application AccountA special username that is used by an application to interact with UH Grouper (and therefore, UH Groupings).  Grouper permissions are granted based on the needs of the application.N/A, an application account can access whatever Grouper resources and perform whatever operations it has been granted access topermissions for.

 

Anatomy of a Grouping

All groupings must be created under hawaii.edu:custom:<org> or a subdirectory under that.  We'll describe the Grouper components that make up a grouping by using a manoa-math-club grouping example.  Remember that a colon delimits a folder, so we'll notate them in bold and ending with a colon:

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