Groups are a great way to mass-manage your users' permissions to apps, layers, and projects. You can use the Groups endpoints to create, edit and delete any of your organization's groups.

Properties of `/groups.json` and `/groups/{id}.json` Requests

This table applies to all Groups requests except for Update Group Permissions requests and Get Group Resource requests.

Property	Type	Required	Readonly	Description
name	string	yes	no	The name of the group
description	string	no	no	Description of the group
id	string	no	yes	UUID of the group

The following properties will be included in a /groups.json or /groups/{id}.json response if you include the associations=true URL query parameter.

Example: https://api.fulcrumapp.com/api/v2/groups.json?associations=true

Property	Type	Description
member_ids	array of strings	The members in the group
layer_ids	array of strings	The layers in the group
project_ids	array of strings	The projects in the group
form_ids	array of strings	The forms in the group

But to change these properties, you will need to use the Update Group Permissions endpoint

Getting additional information about the members, layers, projects and forms associated with a group

As stated above, you can use the associations=true URL query parameter in any /groups.json request in order to get the ids of the members, layers, projects and forms associated with a group. However if you are looking to return additional information on each of these resources, you can use the Get Group Resource endpoint. The URL for this request is /groups/{id}/{resource}.json

Creating Groups

Validations for Creating Groups

To create a group, send a POST request to the Create Group endpoint with the following parameters:

Property	Type	Required	Description
name	string	yes	The name of the group
description	string	no	Description of the group

Example JSON body:

{
    "group":{
        "name": "New group",
        "description": "Hello group!"
    }
}

At the moment, you cannot assign permissions to a group before the group has been created. You must first create the group, and then use the Update Group Permissions request to add members, layers, projects and forms to the group.

Updating the Name and Description of a Group

To update the name or description of a given group, send a PUT request the Update Group Name / Description endpoint.

Validations for non-permission group updates

You do not need to include all properties in the body of your non-permissions update request. Feel free to only include name or description as needed.

Property	Type	Required	Description
name	string	no	The name of the group
description	string	no	Description of the group

Updating Permissions for a Group

If you are looking to update a group's members, layers, projects or forms, send a POST request to the Update Group Permissions endpoint. The URL for this request is /groups/change_permissions.json

Validations for group permission updates

To change one of the permission properties of a group, you will need to include the correct type slug in the body of your request. Use this table to find out which slug to use in your request:

Desired action	Type slug
Update a group's members	`group_members`
Update a group's projects	`group_projects`
Update a group's layers	`group_layers`
Update a group's forms	`group_forms`

The body of your request should contain these properties as required:

Property	Type	Required	Description
type	string	yes	The type of update (reference the type slug table above)
group_id	string	yes	The group ID
add	array of strings	no	The collection of entities to add to the group
remove	array of strings	no	The collection of entities to remove from the group

Notes

In a successful Update Group Permissions request, nothing will be returned, even if you set associations=true
Permissions provided from Groups take priority over normal permissions. If you attempt to remove a member's Group-provided access to a form, project, or layer, the request will fail with a 422 status code response and the member's permissions will not change

Sample Response from a `/groups.json` or `/groups/{id}.json` endpoint with `associations=true` query parameter

{
    "group": {
        "name": "New Group",
        "description": "Hello group!",
        "id": "32280b0c-a806-48cb-97a9-7a3f40e48893",
        "member_ids": [
            "8ef909c1-dbce-40e2-92a9-3ce98031530c"
        ],
        "layer_ids": [
            "ddad85ed-d038-48fc-9086-090497e3b1f1",
            "114149f1-80a8-4095-8bf2-9b7c3265fd9a"
        ],
        "project_ids": [],
        "form_ids": [
            "a314ebda-eb51-44f0-b79e-07e83a4d4be0",
            "d1b3a7c1-9cd2-4f14-b408-46bd627644e5",
            "0c9f4569-a527-4301-a47d-f297d694a9b3"
        ]
    }
}

Properties of /groups.json and /groups/{id}.json Requests