Google Group Directory Unlister

Basics

Google Groups for Gsuite is a product that allows admins to create mailing lists for their domain. It is different than the public-facing Google Groups forums. When an admin makes a new Google Group for their domain, by default, the email address for that group is available in their domain's directory. That means that every user in the domain has the group's email address autocomplete when they type in the "To:" field in Gmail. There is no way to change that setting unless you do it programatically via the Admin Group Settings API.

In order to make our Admin's lives easier, I created this script. It simply grabs all of the groups on your domain and lets you toggle whether they are or are not included in the directory.

Setup

Note: This project must be initially created by a domain administrator account

1. Log in as a domain administrator and create a new Google Apps Script project in Google Drive.
2. Copy and paste the code from code.gs in this repository into code.gs in the Apps Script project
3. Create a new html file in your project with the Files ➕ button in the left sidebar, choose HTML, name it index (.html is added automatically), and copy the code from index.html from this repository into it.
4. In the Services ➕ section on the left sidebar, scroll down and turn on the Admin Directory API and Groups Settings API.
5. On line 19 of code.gs, change yourdomain.com to your domain name.
6. Click Deploy → New deployment. Choose the level of access that you want to have on the panel (Under Who has access), and click Deploy.

You're done! Navigate to that web app URL to see your groups and modify each one's setting.

Updating

When updates are released here on Github, simply copy and paste the newer code.gs and index.html files to your project, make sure your domain name on line 19 of code.gs is correct, and go to Deploy → Manage deployments. Click the ✏️ Edit button in the top right of your current deployment, choose New version under the Version dropdown, and click Deploy. You should be good to go!

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Feel free to take a look at the source and adapt as you please. I would love to see some pull requests for improvements to the Javascript.

This source is licensed as follows:

Google Group Directory Unlister is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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