AquaLogic Interaction Administrator Guide

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Importing User Information from External Repositories with Remote Profile Sources

Profile sources allow you to import user information (such as name, address, or phone number) that is already defined in your enterprise in existing user repositories, such as Active Directory or LDAP servers. The imported user information can be used to populate user profiles or can be passed to content crawlers, remote portlets, or federated searches as user information.

Before you create a remote profile source, you must:
  • Import users with an authentication source.
  • If necessary, create portal properties for the attributes you want to import.
  • Associate the portal properties with the user object through the Global Object Property Map.
  • Map user attributes from the source user repository to portal properties with the User Information Property Map.
  • Install the profile provider on the computer that hosts the portal or on another computer.
  • Create a remote server that points to the computer that hosts the profile provider.
  • Create a profile web service on which to base the profile source.
To create a profile source you must have the following rights and privileges:
  • Access Administration activity right
  • Create Profile Sources activity right
  • At least Edit access to the parent folder (the folder that will store the authentication source)
  • At least Select access to the profile web service on which this profile source will be based
  1. Click Administration.
  2. Open the folder in which you want to store the profile source.
  3. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Profile Source - Remote. The Choose Web Service dialog box opens.
  4. Select the web service that provides the basic settings for your profile source and click OK. The Remote Portlet Editor opens, displaying the Main Settings page.
  5. On the Main Settings page, complete the following tasks:
  6. Click the Property Map page and complete the following task:
  7. Click the Set Job page and complete the following task:
  8. Click the Properties and Names page and complete the following tasks:

The default security for this profile source is based on the security of the parent folder. You can change the security when you save this profile source (on the Security tab page in the Save As dialog box), or by editing this profile source (on the Security page of the Profile Source Editor).

Run the job associated with this profile source.


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