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Gabriel Clifton

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Mar 5, 2021, 9:23:10 AM3/5/21
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I could not find the Dynamic groups in the GAMADV Wiki.
I am wondering if Dynamic groups has anything other than if X == Y then. I am wanting to create Dynamic groups but not everything is ==.  For example, our coaches are teachers also but I would like to create a coaches dynamic group so I would like to use Contains coaches so that I do not have to go through every possible combination of class teacher and coach.

Ross Scroggs

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Mar 5, 2021, 9:25:03 AM3/5/21
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On Mar 5, 2021, at 6:23 AM, 'Gabriel Clifton' via GAM for Google Workspace <google-ap...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I could not find the Dynamic groups in the GAMADV Wiki.
I am wondering if Dynamic groups has anything other than if X == Y then. I am wanting to create Dynamic groups but not everything is ==.  For example, our coaches are teachers also but I would like to create a coaches dynamic group so I would like to use Contains coaches so that I do not have to go through every possible combination of class teacher and coach.

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Gabriel Clifton

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Mar 5, 2021, 9:29:34 AM3/5/21
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I thought that section was for regular groups, I didn't see or really notice anything about creating Dynamic groups.



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Ross Scroggs

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Mar 5, 2021, 9:37:55 AM3/5/21
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Gabriel,

Dynamic groups are part of a new API named Cloud Identity Groups.
See the varous links at the top of the page.


Gabriel Clifton

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Mar 5, 2021, 9:42:39 AM3/5/21
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Thanks Ross. Unfortunately, it looks like I will not be able to use Dynamic groups because everything is == and I do not want to create huge lists of possibilities. I would love it if they eventually do contains, ends with, begins with, etc.

SalutAToi

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May 17, 2021, 3:12:46 AM5/17/21
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Hey ! As I was wondering about CEL query building and its limitations with Google dynamic groups, I looked up the CEL spec, which does allow for an extended usage with startswith, endswith, matches(regex), so it would be possible. 

However it seems google is checking and validating the query for dynamic groups against a limited set of valid queries in CEL, and not just anything that would respect the spec. I've tried creating different valid CEL queries not offered by the graphical query builder, both via the API and via the graphical query builder. It would seem only what is allowed in the graphical query builder can be used to create dynamic groups query.

Hopefully Google corrects that and will allow us to use more complex queries.

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