2 questions about the Portal and User IDs

[andyklee]

1. How have other clients handled the requirement that the Portal User ID must be equal to the E1 User ID - rather than having an independent ID for portal (user email for example) and corresponding that to the E1 ID via LDAP or any other vehicle.

2. Are there any ''out of the box'' registration offerings from Oracle for Vendor Self Service.

Thanks,

Andy

 

[jdel6654]

I got close to this point with my *SS apps on WebSphere portal. We decided not to implement *SS apps so the account mapping ended up not being needed.

We already had AD LDAP for E1 ERP. In that configuration most accounts were longer than 10 characters. As such we could not use the AD account for LDAP. We configured E1 LDAP to pull an alternate AD LDAP attribute that is user reserved. We set AD to automatically take the 1st chars of the AD account and put it into the user reserved field.

On the portal side, we wanted to have portal use the regular long AD account via a web proxy authenticator like WebSeal. Effectively, the ID and password is picked up from the Windows login. There is a way to do this if you dig into Portal documentation.

Your only other option is to have the user login with the 10-char login.