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Users of Grouper sometimes need to create and manage entities in Grouper which are not part of a central subject source. An example is where Grouper integrates with an external database that has a schemas needed for access management. These schemas must be represented in Grouper so they can be assigned to Groups/Roles/Permissions. Before Grouper 2.1 this could be solved by creating a Group to represent the entity, and not assign members to the group. In Grouper 2.1 an "entity" can be created in the folder structure.
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