Specify group member "type" when creating a new group member

[bitsof info]

Hi,

Is there any way to specify the "memberType" when creating a new "group" in our google apps domain via the group provisioning api? We can get a "memberType" when we retrieve groups but not specify on create. Our source system that is pumping data into google supports "groups within groups" so sometimes we are adding "groups" to google groups and we need to specify this on create so we get that back on a retrive of the group members.

thanks

[Alexandre Jacquet]

What do you mean with memberType? If the user is owner or member? or the group settings?

                                                                                           

Alexandre Jacquet Google Apps Deployment Specialst  São Paulo | SP | Brasil Tel.: 55 11 8064 6882

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[bitsof info]

When you call retrieveAllMembers() you get a feed of members. Each member entry in the feed has a few props.  "memberId" and "memberType" are a few of them. I want to know how you can specify the memberType when creating a group member 

[Shraddha Gupta]

Hello,

MemberType is automatically set when u add the member to the group. 

When you add a group to a Group, its memberType is automatically set as "Group" and when you add user to Group, its memberType is set as "User" . 

So you cannot set the memberType, as original memberType is itself set.

Shraddha.

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Shraddha Gupta

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Google, Hyderabad.

[bitsof info]

I guess thats my point, as when adding via the REST API from some external client, there is no way to specify if the "groupid" is a user or a group, if the groupid is some other email not within the google apps account. It would be nice if this were possible to specify an memberType or arbitrary type

[Shraddha Gupta]

Hi bitfinfo,

Specification of memberType is not supported by the current API, so for now there is no way you can specify memberType for groups not in your google apps account.

If you would like that feature to be inserted in the API, you can make a feature request in the apps-api issues site at http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/list.