Group Type

RE: Group Type

Stewart Burchell — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:46:04 GMT

Yes, exactly.

RE: Group Type

GauravSingh — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:29:29 GMT

Thanks for your response Stewart, so will it be correct to say that group type lets user to define custom attribute to the new group type which is not generally possible with the Appian generated Custom Group Type.

Also as per Stefan, he has used it for mapping he groups to OU in the LDAP sync, will there be any other specific use cases.

RE: Group Type

Stewart Burchell — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:39:44 GMT

You can think of a Group Type as a template from which you can make your own Custom Groups. The main advantage is that you can include custom attributes in your Group instances (which you can't with the OOTB custom groups).

RE: Group Type

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:23:12 GMT

I use group types for automatic LDAP synchronization. The group type defines a custom field holding the name of the group in the active directory. When synching, I fetch all groups of that type and use that custom field to filter in LDAP.