Co-author – Srihari Ananda Kumar
Google Groups is a service provided by Google that allows users to create and manage mailing lists, online discussion forums, and collaborative inboxes.
Building a flow in IBM App Connect with Google Groups
Use App Connect to build flows that integrate with Google Groups and other applications. The connector is displayed as Google Groups on the App Connect User Interface (UI).
To allow App Connect to connect to your Google Groups account, you need to complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer Catalog page or flow editor.
For more information on connection fields, see How to use App Connect with Google Groups.
Google Groups objects
The following are the Google Groups objects that can be run in App Connect.
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Objects
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Description
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Group aliases
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You can add different email addresses, known as email aliases, to your organization's groups. For example, if there's a group email for support@abc.com, you can add helpedesk@abc.com as an email alias for the group. The messages sent to either address is grouped together.
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Group members
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A group member can be a user or another group on Google.
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Groups
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A group is a collection of users or groups on Google.
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Scenario 1: Add a group member in Google Groups for each employee retrieved from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
Consider this scenario, where you use App Connect to add a member to a location-specific group in Google Groups for each employee retrieved from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. In this example, employee details are obtained from a given employment start date. If the employee already exists in the location-specific Google group, the employee is added as a group member. Otherwise, a new group is created based on the employee's location and added to the location-based group as a member.
In this flow:
- You run a scheduler-based flow that retrieves employees who started their employment on August 15, 2023, from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
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- Google Groups retrieves the groups based on the office location of the retrieved employees from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
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- If the employee already exists in the location-specific group in Google Groups, the employee is added as a group member.
- Otherwise, a new group is created based on the employee's office location.
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- The employee is added as a member of the location-specific group with their primary email address.
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In summary, let's take an example where the information of employees belonging to organization ABC is stored in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. Upon the onboarding of a new employee, their details are retrieved according to their office location. A location-specific group (if one does not already exist) is created on Google Groups, created by office location. The new employee is then added as a member of the corresponding location-specific group.
Resources
Try out our templates
You can view the following use cases in the Templates gallery in your App Connect Designer instance.
The following use cases are available in the Templates gallery on App Connect Designer.
You must enable the Designer AI features in your containerized environment to access the App Connect templates. For more information, see The preloaded IBM App Connect templates.
You can also import these use cases directly into your App Connect Designer. These templates are added to a public GitHub repository at https://github.com/ot4i/app-connect-templates/tree/cp4i-templates/resources. For more information about the supported connectors, see App Connect Connectors.
For any inquiries on this blog or connector, contact Srihari at srihakum@in.ibm.com.
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