Importing Users from One Crowd Directory into Another

Importing users from large data sets is very slow

Crowd has a problem with importing large sets of users from LDAP. The import process will be very slow and may time out. This issue is being tracked as CWD-848. As a workaround, we recommend importing from data sets of maximum 1000 users.

Once you have added a directory, you can import users, groups and roles into it from an external system or from another directory defined in Crowd. To learn about importing from external systems, refer to Importing Users and Groups into a Directory. Below we tell you how to import from one Crowd directory to another.

You can copy users, groups, roles and memberships:

From an LDAP directory to a Delegated Authentication directory.
From one internal Crowd directory to another internal Crowd directory.

Things to be aware of:

The 'Password Encryption' method must be the same in both directories, otherwise you will not be able to copy the users across.
You may encounter problems if you alternate between LDAP and Delegated Authentication directories.
The 'source directory' is the directory you want to copy users, groups and roles from. The 'destination directory' is where you want to copy them to. Both directories must be defined in Crowd before you start the import process.

To import users, groups and roles from one Crowd directory into another,

Log in to the Crowd Administration Console.
If not already defined, add the source directory to Crowd.
If not already defined, add the destination directory to Crowd.
Click the 'Users' link in the top navigation bar.
This will display the User Browser. Click the 'Import Users' link.
This will display the 'Import Type' screen. Click the 'Directory Importer' button.
This will display the 'Options' screen, shown below. Complete the fields as follows:
- 'Source Directory' — Select the directory that contains the users, groups and roles you want to copy.
- 'Destination Directory' — Select the directory that you want to copy the users, groups and roles into.
- 'Overwrite Destination Directory' — Tick the box if you want to delete and replace all the details and memberships for any user who exists in both source and destination directories:
  - If the checkbox is empty, Crowd will not update the user details for that username in the destination directory, but will add any new group or role memberships for that username.
  - If the checkbox is ticked, Crowd will remove all the details and memberships for that username from the destination directory and replace them with the details and memberships from the source directory.
Click the 'Continue' button.
The 'Confirmation' screen will be displayed. Check the details and click the 'Continue' button.
The 'Results' screen will be displayed, showing how many users, groups and roles have been imported into your Crowd directory.
If the import of any users, groups or roles failed, please check the log files to find out why.

Screenshot: 'Import users from one directory to another'

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To allow the users to log in to the integrated application(s) via Crowd:

Map the directory to the application(s), if not already done. See Mapping a Directory to an Application.
Give the imported groups access to the application(s). See Specifying which Groups can access an Application.

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