The Group Expansion Connector can be configured using the Aspire Admin UI. It requires the following entities to be created:

  • Connection
  • Connector
  • Seed

Below are the examples of how to create the Connection and the Seed. For the Connector, please check this page.

Create Connection


  1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the connections tab
  2. All existing connections will be listed. Click on the new button
  3. Enter the new connection description. 
  4. Select Group Expansion from the Type list.


Create Connector


For the creation of the Connector object using the Admin UI, check this page


Create Seed


  1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the seeds tab
  2. All existing seeds will be listed. Click on the new button
  3. Enter the new seed description. 
  4. Select Group Expansion from the Type list.
  5. Scope: Include/exclude lists of the seeds, its identities should be crawled. Default is all seeds.
  6. Custom mapping: Configure custom mapping for specific seeds:
    1. Seed to apply the attribute mapping
    2. Type local/external:
      1. local:
        1. The attribute to be used as the identity key
      2. external:
        1. The attribute to be used as the identity key
        2. The external seed ID for looking up the identity
        3. The attribute used for lookup in external seeds identities
  7. Connector: The ID of the connector to be used with this seed. The connector type must match the seed type.
  8. Connection: The ID of the connection to be used with this seed. The connection type must match the seed type.
  9. Workflow: The IDs of the workflows that will be executed for the documents crawled.
  10. Tag: The tags of the seed, these can be used to filter the seed.
  11. Policies
    1. Throttle Policy: Select the throttle policy that applies to this connection object.
    2. Routing Policies: Select the routing policies that this connection will use.