Overview

The Edit Group smart service allows you to select a group and update any of its available fields, including its name, description, and parent group.

Permissions needed

The Edit Group smart service can only be executed by a system administrator or by an administrator of the group. Attempting to run this node without sufficient rights causes an error message to be sent to the process administrator and pauses the process. This also occurs if you attempt to rename a group using an existing name or specify an object that does not exist.

Attempting to execute this task as a Basic User causes a runtime exception that pauses the process and sends an alert to the Process Administrator.

Properties

• Category: Identity Management

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• Assignment Options: Attended/Unattended

Configuration options

This section contains tab configuration details specific to this smart service. For more information about common configurations see the Process Node Properties page.

Data tab

Node inputs

Name	Type	Required	Multiple	Default Value	Comments
Group	Group	Yes	No
Name	Text	Yes	No		The following characters are not allowed in group names. / \ < > " , . * '
Description	Text	No	No
Delegated Creation?	Integer		No	0 (No)	The default values are Yes or No. The integer 1 equals yes. 0 equals no.
Parent Group	Group	No	No		The user account that activates this activity must have Administrator rights for the parent group in order to add this new group as a child.
Membership Policy	Number	Yes	No	Closed	Default value options: Closed, Exclusive, Automatic
Visibility	Number	Yes	No	Public	Default value options: Public, Personal, Restricted
Privacy Policy	Number	Yes	No	Low	Default value options: Low, High

If the activity is run without being assigned to a user (or a group) you must specify values for each of the node inputs listed.

Selecting a Personal visibility input value sets other associated node input values automatically. Be aware that the node input lists on the Data tab and the dropdown lists displayed task form are not automatically filtered when this happens to show only valid options for the visibility. Any invalid selections (made by you at design time, or by your users at runtime) are ignored when the group is created.

If the Visibility input is set to Personal, the following settings are configured automatically.

• The Group Type input is set to Custom
• No value can be specified for the Parent Group node input.
• The membership policy node input is set to Closed.
• The privacy policy node input is set to High.

a!editGroup()

The Edit Group smart service is available as an expression function that can be executed inside a saveInto on a Interface Component or as part of a Web API.

Syntax

a!editGroup( group, name, description, delegatedCreation, parent, membershipPolicy, securityType, groupPrivacy, onSuccess, onError )

Parameters

Keyword	Type	Description
group	Group	The group to modify.
name	Text	The name of the group.
description	Text	The description of the group.
delegatedCreation	Boolean	Should administrators of this group be permitted to create additional groups as children? The default value is false.
parent	Group	The group's parent. You must be an administrator of this group.
membershipPolicy	Text	The membership policy of the new group. Valid values include CLOSED (default), EXCLUSIVE, AUTOMATIC. See Group Membership Policy for definitions of the membership policies.
securityType	Text)	The security type of the new group. Valid values include PUBLIC (default), PERSONAL, RESTRICTED. See Group Visibility for definitions of the security types.
groupPrivacy	Text	The privacy policy of the new group. Valid values include LOW (default), HIGH. See Group Privacy Policy for definitions of the group privacy rules.
onSuccess	Any Type	A list of saves or an HTTP response to execute after the smart service executes successfully. Created with a!save() or a!httpResponse().
onError	Any Type	A list of saves or an HTTP response to execute when the smart service does not execute successfully. Created with a!save() or a!httpResponse().

Returns

Save

Example

See Create Group Smart Service

Feature compatibility

The table below lists this smart service function's compatibility with various features in Appian.

Feature	Compatibility	Note
Portals	Partially compatible	Can be used with Appian Portals if it is connected using an integration and web API.
Offline Mobile	Incompatible
Sync-Time Custom Record Fields	Incompatible
Real-Time Custom Record Fields	Incompatible	Custom record fields that evaluate in real time must be configured using one or more Custom Field functions.
Process Reports	Incompatible	Cannot be used to configure a process report.
Process Events	Incompatible	Cannot be used to configure a process event node, such as a start event or timer event.