GAM commands in batch not working

[Jeff Sararas]

I think I'm not understanding the correct syntax in the wiki for batching GAM commands.

I have setup the groups already to allow external members. Before attempting to batch, I ran:

gam update grou...@domain.com add member users "ema...@external.com,ema...@external.com" which works perfectly. Results appear as

Group:  grou...@domain.com, Will add 2 MEMBERs.

Using 2 processes...

 Group:  grou...@domain.com ,  ema...@external.com,  Added as MEMBER

 Group:  grou...@domain.com ,  ema...@external.com   Added as MEMBER

The 2 members appear in my group as expected. 

But when I try and batch these command in a .txt file, they have no effect.

I made members.txt consisting of:

gam update grou...@domain.com add member users "ema...@external.com,ema...@external.com"

gam update group...@domain.com add member users "ema...@external.com,ema...@external.com"

gam update group...@domain.com add member users "ema...@external.com,ema...@external.com"

I then ran

gam batch members.txt

The results I see are:

Group:  grou...@domain.com, Will add 2 MEMBERs.

Group:  group...@domain.com, Will add 2 MEMBERs.

Group: group...@domain.com, Will add 2 MEMBERs.

But it seems to be an empty promise - no members get added to the groups.

I tried putting commit-batch between each line but no dice.

Do I have it wrong? Do I have to delimit each command? Or can you not batch these particular commands together?

[Brian Kim]

Try using tbatch instead of batch.

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Bulk-Processing#batch-files

[Ross Scroggs]

Jeff,

You're using Standard GAM and because of the way it is coded you can not add/delete more that one user to/from a group from within a batch command.

Basic gam does not have the tbatch command as Brian suggested.

All of this works in Advanced GAM (https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3), see: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/How-to-Upgrade-from-Standard-GAM

What you can do with your version is the following.

Make a CSV file GroupAdds.csv with two columns: group,user

gam csv GroupAdds.csv gam update group "~group" add member "~user"

Ross

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[Jeff]

Thanks very much for the suggestions and explanations. To clarify:

Am I still limited to a single ~user against each ~group in the CSV? I'm more than happy to iterate through my member lists (for the 2nd member, 3rd member etc), but wanted to ask before doing that work.

Or can I have group,user1,user,2user,3,user4, (where some would be blank).

The Part 2 of what I am hoping to do is a second batch of owners who don't receive emails:

gam update grou...@domain.com add owner nomail users "ema...@external.com, ema...@external.ca", which again works as a single statement. Can I CSV this too? Apologies, I couldn't find how to set as  owner and specify nomail as variables in the CSV.