Creating Groups and User Mappings

The creation of user to user mappings and options groups is not required.

The Users and Groups tab enables you to map users or groups in the third-party tool to Explore's internal users.

There are two purposes for mapping users and groups. One purpose is to enable you to create integration user groups in order to associate integration options with a particular set of users. This grouping of users is only related to the integration software itself. This grouping is independent of any grouping of users either in the external tool or in CES. In addition, the integration software does not send any integration group information to either the third party tool or to CES.

The other purpose in mapping users and groups is to provide mappings from external user groups and user names to user names.

  • You do not need to set up user mapping if:
  • You want to have the user names pass through from one tool to the other tool, for example, sapuser1  >  sapuser1.
  • You want to associate the default User (as set in the Global Options tab) with the third party tool's user name.
  • You have selected the External User or Group Passthrough option.

If you want to pass another name to the external tool than appears in the first tool, for example, you want to map sapuser1 to cisdba, you need to set up a user mapping.

The external user or group must be unique. Therefore, you can only have one entry per external user or group.

This table explains the group tasks:
Task Procedures
Create Groups and User Mappings
  1. From the SIS Interactive Home page, select the Users and Groups tab.

  2. Enter data in the External User or Group, Options Group, and the User fields.

  3. Click Insert. A new group is also created only if the specified options group does not already exist.

    Note: You must enter a value for the External User or Group field.

Delete a user/group mapping
  1. From the SIS Interactive Home page, select the Users and Groups tab.

  2. Select the option beside the mapping that you want to delete.

  3. Click Delete.

Modify a user/group mapping
  1. From the SIS Interactive Home page, select the Users and Groups tab.

  2. Select the mapping that you want to modify.

  3. Click Modify.