Placing New Groupwise Accounts in Two PO Objects, by Name, with IDM

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By Aaron Burgemeister

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Problem

A Forum reader recently asked:

"I'm trying to place new Groupwise accounts in two different PO objects. One PO takes all users with CN's beginning with A through K, the other takes L through Z. I've been playing with IDM Policy builder, but apart from creating a heap of separate rules for A through Z, I can't really come up with a tidy solution. Does anyone have a good stylesheet suggestion for this?"

And here's the response from Aaron Burgemeister ...

Solution

You should only need (at most) two rules. The first rule should use a regular expression to say this:
if username starts with a character in the set (case insensitive) [a-k] put them in POAtoK

The second rule says the opposite. You could even take out the second condition and have a rule that just runs if it's hit, assuming you break out of your policy after the first rule's actions are run.

<if username starts with [a-k]>
  <do set placement in POAtoK />
  <break />
</if>
<do set placement in POLtoZ /> #Not reached if first rule runs because of the break.

Ta-da! Policy Builder should make this fairly simple. Tons of material is available online regarding regular expressions.

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