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    User ID Generation does not work for new users created via SIS

    • Product: Alma

    Description

    We defined an automatic generation of primary IDs (Admin -> User Management -> General -> User ID Generation).

    However, this is not applied when importing new users via SIS.

    Resolution

    This is expected system behavior.

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/050Administration/040Configuring_User_Management/090Configuring_User_ID_Generation :
    "You can configure the automatically generated user identifiers for new patrons that are added when an operator adds a patron on the Patron Identification page"
    And later: "User identifiers are not generated when users are added or edited on the Manage Users page (see Adding Users); they are only generated when adding a patron from the Patron Identification page."


    For SIS, it works differently as described here:
    https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/user-management/sis/synch/:
    "For new users, if the primary identifier is not supplied, the system generates a default one by concatenating the first and last name. If this value already exists cross-institution, a sequence starting from 0 is added until no match is found."

     

     

     


    • Article last edited: 16-Apr-2021
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