Importing groups from HR

It might not be the case that groups are created and managed in FIM. There might be an external system with information about groups and their members.

At The Company, all groups related to the Organization are managed in the HR system. The membership—the member attribute—is made available through the multi-value setting in the HR MA.

First of all, we need to import the group data from HR, using an Inbound synchronization rule.

We are getting the hang of this by now, so let's look at it quickly.

  1. Select the Inbound button for Data Flow Direction.
    Importing groups from HR
  2. In the HR system, at The Company the object type Resource Type is orgUnit, but in ...

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