Grouper Upgrade 2016-04-24

Owned by Julio Polo
Last updated: Feb 16, 2018
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UH Grouper was upgraded on Sunday 4/24/2016 at 7:00a.   Here are the changes that took place:

Important change: Group Store

  • The new top-level folders are now:
    • hawaii.edu : custom (your own groups/groupings go here)
    • hawaii.edu : store (the UH Group Store)
    • hawaii.edu : prime (internal use only)
  • All groups you need to use are now available in the new Group Store (in the hawaii.edu:store folder).  There is no charge for using the groups, but you will need to request access to them.
  • We no longer divide groups into confusing 'auto' vs 'menu' groups. You only need to look in the hawaii.edu:store folder
  • The groups in the group store are built from building-block groups called prime groups (in the hawaii.edu:prime folder). You do not need to look for groups inside this folder, but you will see references to them from the store group.
    • Prime groups are similar to prime numbers in that they cannot be reduced to anything smaller, and they are used to build bigger numbers (or a copy of itself when multiplied by 1).  That's very similar to how these prime groups are used to build the store groups.
  • The hawaii.edu:menu:sis:curricula folder is now hawaii.edu:store:sis:curriculum
  • The enrolled group for an entire campus has a slightly new format:
    • hawaii.edu:store:sis:registration:201630:enrolled:HON (old)
    • hawaii.edu:store:sis:registration:201630:HON:enrolled (new)
  • Any references to the old hawaii.edu:auto and hawaii.edu:menu will automatically be converted to the new group store paths.

Important change: Grouper version 2.2

  • Grouper software will be upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2
  • For those with access to the Grouper web UI, there is a new UI by default.  The legacy UIs are still available as Admin UI and Lite UI links.

Web Services

  • Change the version in the URL to v2_2_002.
  • Your code may need to account for two additional values which are always appended to WsSubject's attributeValues:
    • wsSubjects
      • WsSubject
        • attributeValues
          • value of attribute(s) you requested, if any
          • member name
          • member description (for people, it's usually the same as above)

The following metadata was not transferred with this upgrade:

  • Audit logs about who did what and when, including but not limited to:
    • Date and time that a group or folder was created or modified
    • Who created a folder (original creator of group will be preserved)