Dynamic Groups Support

[Foresight Service]

Hi Foresight Team,

Thanks for creating this tool, it's been handy. One issue we're trying to solve for is the management of Org Unit memberships based on what dynamic Google Groups a user is a member of.

Our use case:

1. HR moves a user to a particular department

2. User's information is updated in Google

3. Google moves the user to a dynamic Google Group based on their user profile info

4. We would like to then trigger a move to a different Org Unit as well. This is where Foresight is not currently picking up the Google Group change. Is there a way to support dynamic group assignment alongside manual assignment in the Admin console?

Thanks!

-Scott

PartnerHero

[Jason Huang]

Hi Scott,

We have yet to support Google dynamic groups in Foresight. The dynamic groups is a relatively new concept.

Alternatively, Foresight supports a reversed use case

1. HR changes a user's Org Unit to a particular OU
2. It triggers Foresight to update the user's Department field
3. Google moves the user to a dynamic Google Group based on their user profile info, including the updated Department field.

This use case can be completed by such automation User's organizational unit changed trigger => Update employee department action. Optionally, you can use an If action to set different department information based on different destination OUs, so that the automations can be simplified into one rule. 

Would this work too? 

Best,

--

Jason from xFanatical

[Foresight Service]

Hi Jason,

That may be a good secondary solution for us, but ultimately our Google User fields are being populated from our HR database every 24 hours so driving things from the field updates is the ultimate solution. We'll try this out though.

Any plans to add support for dynamic Google Groups in the near future?

[Jason Huang]

Hi Scott, it makes senses to integrate with HR database to fully automate the employee management. 

Sorry we don't have the plan to support dynamic Google Groups in the near future. But I'll add your feedback to our product backlog. 

Thank you.

[Tacim BULUT]

Hi,
If you use the code below with the help of the apps script, you'll get it done. You can change the scenario according to you

function addAllOUUsersToGroup() {

let pageToken

let page

do {

page = AdminDirectory.Users.list({

domain: 'xxxxxx.com',

orderBy: 'givenName',

projection:'full',

//maxResults: 100,

pageToken: pageToken

});

var users = page.users;

if (users) {

for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) {

var user = users[i];

try {

var userEmail = user.primaryEmail

var groupEmail = 'grupx...@xxxx.com'; //Group to be added if conditions are true

var member = {

email: userEmail,

role: 'MEMBER'

};

department = user.organizations[0].department;

title = user.organizations[0].title;

if(department=='test1'&& title=='test5'){

Logger.log('%s,%s,%s)',user.name.fullName,user.locations,user.organizations, user.customSchemas);

member = AdminDirectory.Members.insert(member, groupEmail);

}

} catch (e) {

department = e

}

}

} else {

Logger.log('No users found.');

}

pageToken = page.nextPageToken;

} while (pageToken);

}

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