GAM 3.6 - Can't change group post permissions to only those in domain

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Jason Maitland

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Nov 18, 2015, 10:47:54 AM11/18/15
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I'm trying to prevent parents from emailing back to a group by setting the group basic permissions on who can post messages. I'm having problems with GAM. I can change the post permissions to owners or managers using:

gam update group 1a-...@rundle.ab.ca who_can_post_message all_managers_can_post

This works fine. What I can't do is set the group to only allow posts from organization members (All organization members). I've tried:

gam update group 1a-...@rundle.ab.ca who_can_post_message all_in_domain_can_post

However, it sets the group permissions to allow all members in the group to post even those who don't have domain accounts.

Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.

Ross Scroggs

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Nov 18, 2015, 11:11:34 AM11/18/15
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Jason,

If you do: gam info group 1a-...@rundle.ab.ca
Do you see:
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    whoCanPostMessage: ALL_IN_DOMAIN_CAN_POST

...
This will verify that GAM properly updated the group.

In my testing I'm seeing what you see, anyone can post which would point to this being a Google bug, not a GAM problem.

Ross

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Ross Scroggs

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Nov 18, 2015, 11:15:53 AM11/18/15
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Jason,

According to the Groups Settings API documentation, possible settings for this attribute are:

NONE_CAN_POST ALL_MANAGERS_CAN_POST ALL_MEMBERS_CAN_POST ALL_IN_DOMAIN_CAN_POST ANYONE_CAN_POST

as you've seen in testing, setting this attribute to ALL_IN_DOMAIN_CAN_POST also adds ALL_MEMBERS_CAN_POST. There's no way to select ALL_IN_DOMAIN and not ALL_MEMBERS via the API.

Ross

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Jason Maitland

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Nov 19, 2015, 11:41:49 AM11/19/15
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Thanks for the feedback Ross. If this has been a problem since 2012 it is wonder that Google hasn't done something to fix the API. Do you know of a workaround. We automate the setup of all of our Google groups for our 4 campuses. This means more than 1000 groups... too many to change by hand.


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Ross Scroggs

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Nov 19, 2015, 12:17:53 PM11/19/15
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Jason,

The API (not GAM) is messed up. I don't know of any workaround at the moment. I'll keep looking around.

Ross

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Jason Maitland

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Nov 19, 2015, 12:27:52 PM11/19/15
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Thank you for giving it some thought. It is much appreciated.

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