Changing Usernames Inside Livelink

Jonathon_Riley

I was wondering if there's a way to change a given user's ID/login under livelink, and if there's a way to maintain consistency with their previous level of permissions. I'd assume the appropriate methods are within MemberService, but I'm unsure of the order to use the methods, and am wary to begin sporadically altering user accounts.

 My first assumption would be something like this:

I'd create a new Member Object, then, using the pre-existing memeber object as a reference, copy over the various properties (except the name). Using the Memberserivce, I'd update the new Member, then delete the old member.

 However, I'm not sure how this would properly transfer permission. Would have the same ID be enough? Would this even work? any Idea on what I should do would be helpful. I'd like to have a good idea of what I'm doing before i try adding/deleting livelink members.

Kyle_Swidrovich

Hi Jonathon,

 

Changing a user’s login name isactually quite simple.

You simply have to set the Name propertyof the Member object to the new user login name using the setName() method ofthe Member class, then pass that into an updateMember() call from theMemberService.

That will retain the old numeric ID of theuser but allow you to change the login account name to whatever you choose.

Since all perms, etc. are all based on auser’s numeric ID, you won’t have to worry about any of that.

 

-- Kyle

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Changing Usernames Inside Livelink

Posted by jonathon.riley@ge.com (Riley, Jonathon) On 2009/08/12 16:01

 

I was wondering if there's a way to change a given user's ID/login under livelink, and if there's a way to maintain consistency with their previous level of permissions. I'd assume the appropriate methods are within MemberService, but I'm unsure of the order to use the methods, and am wary to begin sporadically altering user accounts.  My first assumption would be something like this: I'd create a new Member Object, then, using the pre-existing memeber object as a reference, copy over the various properties (except the name). Using the Memberserivce, I'd update the new Member, then delete the old member.  However, I'm not sure how this would properly transfer permission. Would have the same ID be enough? Would this even work? any Idea on what I should do would be helpful. I'd like to have a good idea of what I'm doing before i try adding/deleting livelink members.

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