Another option is to use the Data Wizard, part of the ITSM Data Management Tool. It works very well.
-Guillaume -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Shafqat Ayaz Sent: Wed 11/05/08 12:55 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Changing Login Name Awesome!! thanks Misi --- On Wed, 11/5/08, Misi Mladoniczky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Misi Mladoniczky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Changing Login Name To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:20 AM Hi, RRR|LoginConv works even if you have Submitter-Mode-Locked. The reason is that the records are updated using ARMergeEntry(), which is how AR Import does it. This will leave Modified By and Date intact as well. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se > Matt > yeah there are a few problems, like firstly changing the names in the User > and People form, secondly the biggest issue is the Submitter field on all > open tickets, we will need to change those, the Submitter field is locked > on our servers, so have to get around that. I am really interested in > Misi's solution and am going to look into it. > > Many thanks > > --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Matt Worsdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Matt Worsdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Changing Login Name > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 5:13 PM > > The obvious problem is that shafqatayaz becomes 123456 in the submitter > field. You could use the Authentication Login Name reserved field to get > round it. > > Matt > > >> Hi List >> >> Our AD is changing the way it stores the employee names, instead of a >> character based login name we are moving to a numeric based login id. As >> anyone implemented something like this before? If so, any gotcha's to > look >> out for, any advice would be useful. >> >> We are on 7.01 ARS, Oracle 10 and ITSM 7 >> >> Many thanks >> >> Shafqat >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >> Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers > Are" > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"