We are in the process of architecting out our User/Role/Permission functionality

toddb520 over 12 years ago

We are in the process of architecting out our User/Role/Permission functionality to integrate Appian into our environment (and currently don't have an on-premise or any other installation available for me to test any theories)... I have a couple questions about the Custom User fields and how they can be used to create dynamic groups in Appian based on user attributes:
1 Can these custom fields be populated via the LDAP synchronization process?
2 Can a multi-valued LDAP attribute be synched to a custom (or normal) user field?
3 If so, can that field be used to dynamically determine group membership based on the existence of 1 or more values of that multi-valued field?
4 If not, what is the limit in size that one of these user fields can hold (I am under the impression that these are already hidden to the Appian UI - so there would be no issue with having a 'really long field value' in a user's profile at least from the UI standpoint)?
5 Is there al...

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0 toddb520 over 12 years ago

...ready something out of the box that can achieve any/all of this functionality?

Thanks in advance,
Todd Bracken
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0 shelzle over 12 years ago

LDAP Sync is done in a process and the smart service "LDAP User Profile Synchronization" allows to map LDAP fields to custom fields.

In our process after LDAP sync we look up other systems (ERP, HR) to put users in several groups like departments and teams.

Groups also have membership rules in which you can define that all users with the string "matchme" in custom field 2 should be in this group.

So ... yes :-)
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0 toddb520 over 12 years ago

Thanks for the update! So you've mapped an LDAP attribute with multiple values to an Appian custom field? e.g. LDAP ('memberOf') attribute with values ["HRGroup", "FinanceDepartment", "SystemUser"] to a single Appian field?
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0 shelzle over 12 years ago

That should work. We interface our ERP and HR systems via SQL after initial LDAP sync and put users in groups according to this information. So in your case you would take the groups from the custom field and put the users into Appian groups that map your departments.
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