Updating a bunch of forms is one thing.. what fields it updates in those forms is another..
Functionality can be impacted to a very large extent if not all the information is updated wherever login name type fields are found on those bunch of forms... The whole behavior and properties of a row can be affected with changes in login names if fields like Submitter, Assigned To, and other application level fields holding login name information such as Requester Login Name etc. is not changed.. Joe From: Boyd, Rebecca Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:20 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bulk Change of login ID ** DLD:SYS:DataWizAction updates a bunch of forms. Use the Data Wizard Tool to modify one login then check DLD:SYS:DataWizAction. It will list all the forms it checked & tell you how any records were updated. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote: ** Does the Data wizard consider existing tickets and the values of field 2, 4, and other login name type fields even if they are custom? If not you may have to write a DB script to get this done.. I had done it using a DB script to mass change login names in a system a few years ago long before the dawn of these nifty utilities that are now being bundled over the past couple of years or so... Joe From: Boyd, Rebecca Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:23 AM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bulk Change of login ID ** I've used the DLD:SYS:DataWizAction form to bulk update login names. Open it up & look at it. If you've used the Data Wizard Console to make any changes, you can search & see the records. Here is what I did: Exported the users that needed changing from CTM:People. Created a csv file. Imported the csv file into DLD:SYS:DataWizAction. Then - & this is where it gets funky - I used a program called AutoHotKey to run through the everything I'd imported into DLD:SYS:DataWizAction. The reason I used AutoHotKey is because I could make it wait for the update action to complete before moving on to the next record. A colleague recommended this & help me set it up. HTH, Rebecca On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Michael Burton <[email protected]> wrote: ** Morning, Just wondering if anyone has experience of a bulk update of people's login ID's. Basically we configured our system to use people's email addresses as their User Name. The obvious advantage of this is that your are guaranteed a unique entry for each employee. Authentication takes place against our AD servers. So we are now in the position that due to a company purchase, we are going to have to change everybody's email address, and as such, regardless of short term work arounds we might be able to put in place, each users login ID will need to change too. I've had a dig on support.bmc.com and found questions about using DMT, but it's not designed to do it. It would seem that the best option is to use the Data Wizard Console, but that only works on a 1:1 basis, but it does do the job and updates everything rather than just the CTM:People form and/or the User form. Is it just a case of bite the bullet and crack on with it via the DWC? Cheers - Mike _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Rebecca Boyd Application Administrator Wake Forest University _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Rebecca Boyd Application Administrator Wake Forest University _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
