Groups Service

Purpose

The UW groups service supports groups usage throughout the institution by making it easier to define and manage the right groups, and then identify and reuse them in many systems and applications via UW Group ID.

Getting Started

• UW Groups - IT Connect : Let IT Connect introduce you to UW Groups.
• Groups Service Basics : Learn the basics of UW Group IDs, group naming, memberships, and access control.
• Home Groups : Learn how to choose a home group for managing UW Group IDs for your organization, team, service, etc.
• Groups Service Features : A list of brief feature descriptions supported by the groups service.
• Institutional Groups : Reference groups provisioned from institutional data sources (HR, academic, etc.)
• Groups UI : Sign in to the user interface (groups.uw.edu) with your UW NetID to browse, search, create, update, and manage groups.

Developer Topics

• Groups API : For programmatic access including API reference for developers.
• Integration Architecture : Learn more about integration of data and applications.

How To:

Get Involved : Contribute directly to this wiki by posting comments and creating new pages.
Announcements : Join groups-announce@uw.edu for service announcements.
Discussion : Discuss the service with other customers and users on groups-users@uw.edu.
Request Features / Report Bugs : Use our backlog in JIRA to report, find, and watch feature requests and bug reports.
Contact Us : Email help@uw.edu to contact the folks in UW-IT who oversee this wiki space and the service.

Groups Pages Recently Updated

Recently Updated

• UW Group Naming Plan

  Jan 25, 2023 • updated by Heidi Berrysmith • view change
• UW Human Resource Groups

  Dec 06, 2022 • updated by Heidi Berrysmith • view change
• UW Affiliation Groups

  Jul 08, 2022 • updated by Jonathan Pass • view change
• UW Affiliation Groups

  May 12, 2022 • updated by Anne Tacazon • view change
• Groups Service Basics

  Mar 24, 2022 • updated by Brian Arkills • view change
• UW Affiliation Groups

  Feb 01, 2022 • updated by Ann Testroet • view change
• Institutional Groups

  Dec 02, 2021 • updated by Jonathan Pass • view change
• Groups Service

  Jul 22, 2020 • updated by Jonathan Pass • view change
• UW Human Resource Groups

  Jun 18, 2020 • updated by Laura Jaurequi • view change
• Groups Service API v2

  Apr 20, 2020 • updated by Jim Fox • view change
• UW Affiliation Groups

  Apr 07, 2020 • updated by Laura Jaurequi • view change
• UW Affiliation Groups

  Mar 23, 2020 • updated by Nathan Dors • view change
• UW Group Naming Plan

  Mar 06, 2020 • updated by Jack Haden-Enneking • view change
• Self-Service Organizational Home Group Creation

  Aug 26, 2019 • updated by Laura Jaurequi • view change
• UW Group Naming Plan

  Aug 26, 2019 • updated by Laura Jaurequi • view change

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