Adding one user group to another, taking strings as arguments

[jlonsdale]

For something that should be very straight forward, this has had me tearing my hair out for hours now...

We're currently running version 2.0.3 of the Active Directory Plugin.

I found the included workflow "Add Groups to group members".

Upon opening it, I found the following line;

userGroup.addElements(groups);

Easy as pie I thought.  Takes an AD:UserGroup Object, along with an array of AD:UserGroup objects.

So, all I need to do is create a scriptable task that takes in a string and retrieves the associated Active Directory Object...

// SourceGroup is the included group

var srcgrp = ActiveDirectory.search("UserGroup",sourceGroup);

// Target Group (The one we're going to add the groups too)

var taggrp = ActiveDirectory.search("UserGroup",targetGroup);

But here's where the wheels come off...

The search method appears to return an array of "AD_UserGroup" type objects.

For the life of me, I CAN NOT figure out how to convert AD_UserGroup objects into the AD:UserGroup objects that the "Add Groups to group members" workflow requires.

Any help or advice on this would be hugely appreciated!

[SeanKohler]

And you are doing...

taggrp[0].addElements(srcgrp);

???

[SeanKohler · Accepted solution]

Well... maybe this will help as a primer...

// Get a one item array... it is a UserGroup Object (but in an array of 1)
var srcgrps = ActiveDirectory.search("UserGroup","GrpIG_smkLabTest-MGR"); //Use an S at the end for plural arrays - good practice
System.log("Warning... search returns an array always... even if there is only one.");
for each (srcgrp in srcgrps){
 System.log(srcgrp.getAttribute("cn"));
}
// Get a two item array... they are UserGroup Objects (but in an array of 2)
var taggrps = ActiveDirectory.search("UserGroup","GrpIG_smkLabTest"); //Use an S at the end for plural arrays - good practice
System.log("Warning... search returns an array always... even if there is only one.");
for each (taggrp in taggrps){
 System.log(taggrp.getAttribute("cn"));
  if (taggrp.getAttribute("cn") == "GrpIG_smkLabTest") {
   System.log("Setting the one I actually want from the array: " + taggrp.getAttribute("cn"));
   var singleTargetGroup = taggrp;
  }
}
System.log ("Do I have the right group?"); // should be "GrpIG_smkLabTest" in my Lab
System.log (singleTargetGroup.getAttribute("cn")); // yeppers
// ONE user group has a method for addElements that takes an ARRAY of UserGroup and/or User objects 
singleTargetGroup.addElements(srcgrps); 
System.log("Warning... groupMembers returns an array always... even if there is only one.");
singleTargetGroupMembers = singleTargetGroup.groupMembers; //Use an S at the end for plural arrays - good practice
//Loop through all the members of the UserGroup object and syslog the name
for each (singleTargetGroupMember in singleTargetGroupMembers){
 System.log(singleTargetGroupMember.getAttribute("cn"));
 }

[jlonsdale]

Thank you for the excellent example code.

This resolved the issue nicely.