SSID on FlexConnect versus Local mode APs???

Hello!
A collegue of mine and  I discussed the different ways we could deliver a SSID on a customers APs on their geographically different sites ...... 
The customer have a WLC5508 (r7.6) and (mostly) AP1142.
All of the APs are in FlexConnect mode
Two SSIDs are centrally switched
One SSID are FlexConnect on all the sites with a local VLAN
Now we would like to deploy a new SSID which should be centrally switched on all the sites, except for one site ...  So the problem is that the SSID need support for FlexConnect for one site but should be centrally switched on all the other sites. And on these sites the APs are also in FlexConnect mode...
Is there a way to do this??? We have been looking around the settings for WLAN, APs, FlexConnect groups etc and cannot figure this out! :-)
Best Regards
Göran Blomqvist
TDC
Sweden

How about creating two SSID profiles for the same SSID Name. One with WLAN-ID > 16 & configured it for FlexConnect local switching. Then create an AP group for the particular branch & map that SSID (the one with local switching) to that.
For other SSID  (without local switching) you can map to all other branch AP (if you have specific group). If you have ap in default-apgroup then as long as you choose WLAN ID < 16, it should be available in all other branches
Give it a try & see.
HTH
Rasika
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