M6 Importing LDAP names from Bluepages
With help from Pravesh and Shawn, I've managed to get my M6 server to
the point where I can begin 'creating' users . i.e. importing users from the User Registry which in my case means Bluepages. I've gotten nowhere using the Web UI to create users but I've done a little better with the RTC client. However, I've noticed that the RTC client will not find any Bluepages people who have a parentheses in their name .... and there's lots of entries like that. My own Bluepages entry looks like this: Ward, David G. (DAVID) I have been unable to import any user with a name like this. Unfortunately for me, all of my team, (less one) have Bluepages names of this form. The one team member who did not have the (NAME) in their entry, was import'able if I included the middle initial plus the period. Can someone give me some advice about what RTC search syntax to use to find Bluepages entries of this form ? Are there plans to relax the search syntax so users can conveniently find names of this form ? |
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David,
I have a similar issue where I can not import certain users, but I don't think it has to do with the parentheses in their names. I say this because 1) names are not used in he search criteria and 2) the few people I'm having trouble importing don't have parenthese in their names. I can import myself, but I can not import you. So used an LDAP browser to compare our two records. One thing I found is that you have multiple entries for 'emailaddress' and 'mail in you LDAP record. See below: emailAddress: davidward@us.ibm.com emailAddress: david_ward@us.ibm.com emailAddress: wardda@us.ibm.com mail: davidward@us.ibm.com mail: david_ward@us.ibm.com mail: wardda@us.ibm.com I only have a single entry for 'emailAddress' and 'mail'. I'll try to determine whether this is a pattern. Just wanted to give you an update. |
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Hmmm good point.
Myself, and most of my team have both a short email address and a long one (I have 3 !!!). Now that you mention it, the one fellow that I can import, has only a single address. I think you're probably correct .. the RTC search doesn't seem to handle LDAP entries with more than one email address.
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There is a perferedIdentity field. I'm not sure if that is mandatory to set or if it must be of single cardinality, but maybe we can try changing the filter to look for that instead.
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User id is an identity field in Jazz repository. As of M6, we don't support
user id to be mapped to a many valued attribute in LDAP registry. In bluepages, name and email address are represented as many valued attributes. But in Jazz repository, these are single valued attributes. In RC1, the user editor will allow users to pick a name and email address from the list of values available in LDAP registry. Importing a user who has many email addresses (user id mapped to email address in bluepages) might require extensive work. I will evaluate the work effort and post a reply in a few days. Thanks Balaji "pravesh" <pravesh> wrote in message news:ftnq6f$hgs$3@localhost.localdomain...
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Balaji
Thanks for getting back. Did I understand you correctly that RC1 will handle this situation ? If so, then what functionality are you referring to in your 3rd paragraph ? I've probably misunderstood. Balaji Krish wrote: User id is an identity field in Jazz repository. As of M6, we don't support |
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David,
User Id, Name and Email address are 3 required fields in Jazz repository for a Contributor. In bluepages LDAP registry, User Id is mapped to mail, name to cn and email address to mail fields. In M6, we map the name and email address to the first value of cn and mail properties in LDAP registry. In RC1, we have plans to allow users to select the name and email address from the set of values in LDAP registry (editing a user can be done in user editor). We don't have any plans for allowing users to change the user id because user id is an identity field in Jazz repository and it requires extensive changes. I will update the forums list if our plans change. ------ Balaji "David Ward" <davidward@us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:ftojdk$s7n$1@localhost.localdomain... Balaji |
So is there a workaround for users like this for M6? I guess we need to be able to create new users in the repository manually without searching LDAP.
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I found a workaround for this situation. Modify your teamserver.properties values to the following:
com.ibm.team.repository.ldap.findUsersByUserIdQuery=preferredIdentity\=?1 com.ibm.team.repository.ldap.userAttributesMapping=userId\=preferredIdentity,name\=cn,emailAddress\=mail This should solve the issue of users having multiple emailAddress attributes in the IBM LDAP. |
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Thanks Pravesh
Your suggested change works fine for me. I can now import everyone in my team. Great work :-) pravesh wrote: I found a workaround for this situation. Modify your |
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Thanks for looking into it. Helped me move one of the dev items to post-1.0
:-) --- Balaji "David Ward" <davidward> wrote in message news:fu2s5c$fps$1@localhost.localdomain...
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