Rename group

I want to programatically change a number of group names, I thought this would do it and I get no complaints, however the desired outcome didn't happen (note the language is PowerShell, a .Net client, and I've removed the try-catch wrappers and web services setup to ease understanding):

$oldg = "Old Group Name"

$newg = "New Group Name"

$node = $sotmember.getgroupbyname($oldg)

$sotdocman.renamenode($($node.id),$($newg))

Again, $node populates correctly and no complaints from renamenode but the group name didn't change. This seems like the right approach to me, anybody have any suggestions? If it matters, this is CWS 10.5

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AKropp

Hi Dave,

You’ll want to use the MemberService to do that. Here’s a little C# snippet to give you the idea.

MemberServiceClient memClient = new MemberServiceClient();

Group myGroup = memClient.GetGroupByName(ref otAuth, "test");

myGroup.Name = "test2";

memClient.UpdateMember(ref otAuth, myGroup);

Just replace test/test2 with the desired groupnames.

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Posted by Kinchlea, Dave On 11/02/2016 12:02 PM

$oldg= "Old Group Name"

$newg= "New Group Name"

$node= $sotmember.getgroupbyname($oldg)

$sotdocman.renamenode($($node.id),$($newg))

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Dave_Kinchlea

Thanks Alex ... not sure why I didn't think of that, I keep forgetting that "member" stuff works with groups. In any case, your solution worked like a charm.

Dave

Kyle_Swidrovich

Yup. Nodes are things with DataIDs that live in DTree.

Groups and Users do not fit this bill.

Dave_Kinchlea

While I agree, that begs the question why the WS didn’t throw an exception with the attempt … but that’s not something I need to be worried aboutJ

Dave

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Posted by Swidrovich, Kyle On 11/02/2016 04:35 PM

Yup. Nodes are things with DataIDs that live in DTree.

Groups and Users do not fit this bill.

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What makes you think it didn't actually rename something? :-)

-chris

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While I agree, that begs the question why the WS didn’t throw an exception with the attempt … but that’s not something I need to be worried aboutJDaveFrom: eLink Entry: Content Web Services Forum [mailto:otdncontentwebservices971forum@elinkkc.opentext.com]
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Posted by Swidrovich, Kyle On 11/02/2016 04:35 PM

Yup. Nodes are things with DataIDs that live in DTree.

Groups and Users do not fit this bill.

appuGmail

Ha ha a few folders/ documents named with group names

Ciao, Appu

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What makes you think it didn't actually rename something? :-)

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Dave_Kinchlea

Quoted Chris Webster on 11/02/2016 07:20 PM:

What makes you think it didn't actually rename something? :-)

-chris

Well that's a good question, the answer is I checked (searched for the nickname that is the ObjectID which couldn't be found) but while I'm going out on a limb here, I don't believe that there are two ID counts ... the same set of numbers are used for an object, a user, a group or anything else that requires an ID (in fact, that is why I figured it would work that way) .... at least that is what I always believed and unless somebody can tell me I'm wrong, I'll continue to believe that. The only semi-exception I know of is that the Personal Workspace is the negative of the userID.

But hey, I've been wrong before ... oh no, I was mistaken :-)

Hope all is well, Chris!

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I hesitate to suggest it but: is your framework somehow hiding exceptions from you??

On my system the userAdmin has ID 1000 and the group DefaultGroup has ID1001.

For my CWS program:

docMan.renameNode (1000, "test");docMan.renameNode (1001, "test");

each line results in a SOAPFaultException with fault code "DocMan.NodeRetrievalError" and fault string "Could not find specified item."

(I know nothing of PowerShell and it invoking CWS, but itshould behave similarly.)

-chris

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Posted by Kinchlea, Dave On 11/02/2016 09:20 PM

Quoted Chris Webster on 11/02/2016 07:20 PM:What makes you think it didn't actually rename something? :-) -chrisWell that's a good question, the answer is I checked (searched for the nickname that is the ObjectID which couldn't be found) but while I'm going out on a limb here, I don't believe that there are two ID counts ... the same set of numbers are used for an object, a user, a group or anything else that requires an ID (in fact, that is why I figured it would work that way) .... at least that is what I always believed and unless somebody can tell me I'm wrong, I'll continue to believe that. The only semi-exception I know of is that the Personal Workspace is the negative of the userID.But hey, I've been wrong before ... oh no, I was mistaken :-)Hope all is well, Chris!

Dave_Kinchlea

Quoted Chris Webster on 11/02/2016 08:32 PM:

I hesitate to suggest it but: is your framework somehow hiding exceptions from you??

Well, there is a first for anything I suppose but it is .Net and has been quite reliable to date ... I suppose it could be my quick programming though Chris, this was just prototyping. Your experience is really what I expected when I tried it (again, I missed updatemember as a group object oriented function) ... I guess my use of "begs the question" might have been taken as meant against OT's code, that wasn't my intention however and I probably shouldn't have sent that last post (it was meant to be jockular). I'm quite prepared to believe it was my coding, I did have a try/catch but perhaps I played it wrong.