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Populate SugarCRM with bunch of LDAP users to make them existing without having to log-in first

Jeff Girard

Hi!

Context: We are using SugarCRM (7.6) with the LDAP connector to get our users, known in our Active Directory, authenticated in the application (we are not yet live, actually in development).

The way it works natively in Sugar is that upon the first user connection of a valid "Active Directory person", if the user doesn't have a "sugarcrm user" it gets automatically created.

The problem we have: We have to prepare and setup some configurations regarding our people (~300 users), like differents notions of teams, ACL, etc. But given the fact that user get created upon login, we are searching a way to just automatically feed SugarCRM with all the expected users, to let us do setup differents configurations regarding them.

What is the best pratice and the proper way to get our users already pre-created without having all of them log-in one after the other? (no no, we will not ask to 300 people to just connect for the pleasure , surely we can automate this hehe!)

What we are looking as possibles solutions for now: Creating a script which will connect with LDAP into our AD and just POST them to SugarCRM using the REST API... (is this making sense, or not?)

Thanks for the help!

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    We have just the solution! Runs as a scheduler, adds users. Adjust active/inactive based upon LDAP. Contact me on Monday for more info

    jeff.bickart@Ticomix.com

  • 0 in reply to Jeff Bickart

    Hi Jeff Bickart , thanks for your answer! I prefer talking here for the benefit of the others who could have the same needs

    Is the solution you propose a third-party product that you are selling or is it something we can just setup by ourself here? (So the scheduler execute a php script which pull AD users and assure that they are sync in SugarCRM?)

    Thanks!

  • 0 in reply to Jeff Girard

    We have an LDAP/AD scheduler that we can sell to you and customize to meet your specific needs.

  • 0 in reply to Jeff Bickart

    For now we will be ok as we have many developers here ready to build the bridge, what we were searching was the "receipe" , and the idea of the scheduler is a good one, this can be easier to run this in the SugarCRM context (using beans) instead of having to query and post to the API. Thanks Jeff!

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    For now we will be ok as we have many developers here ready to build the bridge, what we were searching was the "receipe" , and the idea of the scheduler is a good one, this can be easier to run this in the SugarCRM context (using beans) instead of having to query and post to the API. Thanks Jeff!

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