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New User – Set Attributes
Required fields in the New User window are preceded by an asterisk (*). The Email field is not required to create a user, although email addresses are required for both Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink users, as described in the following table.
Enter New User attributes as described in the following table.
Field
Description
User Name
Identify the user for purposes of group membership, access control rules, event notification rules, and logging on. The name entered here does not need to be unique; however, the user's distinguished name (which is made up of directory attributes that include the user name and directory location) must be unique.
User login names cannot contain the following characters: #, /, >, \, and <.
User login names cannot contain extended ASCII characters such as ä, ê, ì, õ, ǚ, æ, and so on.
This is a required field.
Full Name
Specify the full name of the user. There is no requirement for how to specify the full name. For example, the name could be entered as “John Doe” or “Doe, John”.
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While the order in which you specify the full name of a user does not matter, you should be consistent within your site.
Last Name
Specify the last name of the user.
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The user last name does not appear by default in tables or other locations in Windchill. An optional last name column is available in some locations, such as the Teams table.
Synchronize Name with LDAP
Select the checkbox to allow the full name, last name, or email address of the user to be automatically synchronized between LDAP and the database. This prevents problems that can occur when user attributes are changed in LDAP.
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Synchronization is checked when a user logs on to Windchill. Updates to user data are made on a periodic basis rather than as soon as the update in LDAP occurs. By default, user data is updated weekly.
Email
Specify the user's email address.
Although entering a value in the Email field is not required, the following features require that participants have an email address:
• Giving the site administrator privileges through the Site > Administrators window
• Giving the organization administrator privileges through the Organization > Administrators window
• Enabling the user to create products, libraries, or projects through the Organization > Creator window
• Adding the user as a member of a project through the Team window in the Project context
If users do not have the email attribute set in their directory service entry, the users do not appear when a search is made in the features that require an email address.
Directory Server
Select the directory service in which you want the user entry to reside. The drop-down list displays all of the services that have been established.
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Read-only directory servers are not displayed in the list.
User directory services are established by setting up JNDI adapter entries through the Info*Engine Property Administrator and adding the adapter entries to the wt.federation.org.directoryServices property. For additional information, see Working with LDAP Directory Services.
Domain of User
Select the domain with which the user is associated. A domain is an administrative area that defines a set of administrative policies, such as access control, indexing, and notification. Objects associated with a domain are subject to its policies.
To select from a list of existing domains, click Find. The Find Domain window opens and you can search for and select a domain. You can also type the name of an existing domain into the Context field.
If you do not enter a domain in this field, Windchill determines which domain to set according to the domain algorithm that is in place. For information about domains, see Administering Domains and Policies.
Domain of Personal Cabinet
Select the domain with which the user's cabinet is associated.
To select from a list of existing domains that have been created, click Find. The Find Domain window opens and you can search for and select a domain.
If you do not enter a domain in this field, Windchill determines which domain to set according to the established domain algorithm. For information about domains, see Administering Domains and Policies.
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Other LDAP attributes can be added as Windchill user attributes by configuring custom attributes using the procedure available in Customizing LDAP Mapped Attributes in a User Information Page.
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