Creating commands

[Matt]

At the moment I am manually creating shared mailboxes, moving them to a OU, delegating access to the user and then updating the calendar ACL.  This is a minimum of 4 commands for a single mailbox with a single user.  It gets out of control when a shared mailbox has multiple delegates and multiple owners/editors/readers.  What I would like is a Google Form (Google Form because it would be nice to ultimately roll it out to end users) that will allow a user to enter a mailbox name, enter email addresses of delegates/owners/editors/readers and then format the entered data in to the appropriate commands.

Has anyone come up with any nifty ways of creating GAM commands?

[Derek Berry]

Let me know when this happens!

this is an amazing idea.

[Matt]

I will share my findings when I come up with something worthwhile.  After a bit of research today it seems Google Scripts might be better placed at doing this as opposed to a Google Form.  It should be relatively simple to have a webpage that formats inputed data into appropriate GAM commands after some basic error checking.  It would then be possible to extend that and use the provisioning API to execute the commands.

I say simple but my scripting skills are low.  I have gotten as far as a spreadsheet that will concatenate cells in to an appropriate command and then I can run them from a batch file.  If I can do that it is a short step to a web app isn't it? :-)