Documentation for Crowd 1.0. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.
Once you have added a directory, you can import groups and users (or 'principals', as they are known in Crowd) into it from external user-stores. This can reduce the number of user-stores within your organisation, and give you a consolidated, centralised point of user management. Once you have imported users into a Crowd directory, you can manage them via the Crowd Administration Console (assuming the directory's permissions allow this).
For example, your organisation might currently have user IDs for Atlassian JIRA users stored within JIRA's database, and user IDs for Jive Forums users stored within Jive's database. You could use Crowd to import all the user IDs from both places into Microsoft Active Directory.
要件に応じ、異なるユーザーストアから 1 つの Crowd ディレクトリにインポートすることも、複数の Crowd ディレクトリにインポートすることもできます。
To import users into a directory,
スクリーンショット: "Select Import Type"