bulk add users? 2

[DrDDT]

How do I bulk add users to livelink?

The object importer and xml import cannot do this.

 

[jjlang]

There are a couple of products that can do this.

There is a simple java app from OT that can build the user list from an excel spread sheet, but it does not set all the user features.

There is also a product from Global Cents, called Power Tools for Deployments, that allows you to do migrations of data from 1 Livelink instance to another. You go to the source instance and select the users/groups that you want to create in the new instance, export them, move the export to the new instance, then import them. The product creates the users and groups and populates the groups so that they have the same membership as the source machine. The user notification settings are also copied to the new instance.

That same product also migrates objects from 1 instance to another maintaining all the permissions, metadata, and links between the objects.

 

[ggriffit]

If you have a directory such as AD, you can use the Directory Services module to synchronise the users in Livelink with your AD.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[DrDDT]

Where can I find the simple Java app?

I know about the commercial tools, but I have near zero budget.

The directory module is also a nice idea, but I need to add username/password users. Is there any way to transform them back?

 

[ggriffit]

When the DS, Directory Services, module imports the users there is a link in the KUAF table that links them back to DS, once this is removed they work as normal LL users.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/

 

[appnair]

All you need is a simple java/vb.net /C# routine to parse a
excel/csv file .When each of the entries are encountered you just need to call a lapi call createUser.Have you licensed the SDK that means you have lapi.I will see if I can find the java app for you or maybe throw in together one on the weekend.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

 

[appnair]

I posted a java sample at the communities wiki.Haven't done too much testing but should get you started if you choose to use it.The csv file needs to be pretty much in a format that is explained in the code.Not smart to handle any csv file that is

http://communities.opentext.com/communities/llisapi.dll/wiki/162164/ Code Snippets- Unbroken

I couldn't find the original OT sample also

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

 

[DrDDT]

Thank you for the java snippet!
This is exactly what I was looking for (íf I can get it to work