When importing "created by" for example how does ELM determine whether the user exists or not
So by way of example .. we import a record that contains a created by value of John Smith.
How does or what does ELM look at to determine if John Smith is valid user in the registry and therefore DOES NOT create a new user account in the system when creating the work item.
I'm presuming it uses the Name e.g. John Smith - if that is correct, does it therefore also ignore casing of the name or if the users registry account was JOHN SMITH does it then do a further compare based on login id e.g. SmithJ
We are moving data to a new system, and the old registry entries may not match identically to the new system as the example above, our account in the old system may have been John Smith, SmithJ .. but the AD registry entry in the new system could potentially be john smith, smithj so does it care about the casing ?
One answer
Hi Karen,
as far as I am aware, ELM tools should NOT create users in the Jazz applications when importing data.
Usually the person importing the data would not even have the permissions to create user records. The Jazz applications usually delegate user management to an LDAP system and the application is absolutely not able to create user records on its own. It could create Jazz users, but they would not work, if they are not backed by the LDAP system. If there is no match for the user name/user ID, I would assume that the import would fail.
I might be wrong, not the first time.....
Usually the person importing the data would not even have the permissions to create user records. The Jazz applications usually delegate user management to an LDAP system and the application is absolutely not able to create user records on its own. It could create Jazz users, but they would not work, if they are not backed by the LDAP system. If there is no match for the user name/user ID, I would assume that the import would fail.
I might be wrong, not the first time.....
I would assume that this is case sensitive, but I would suggest you run some simple tests to find out how the system behaves. This should be easy enough to do. Have an import file with several variations of the data and do a test import on a throw away test system.
Comments
