Sync Service only create if startdate is today

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Hello all,

I am testing the ActiveRoles Sync Service. Most part I have working, but still using a lot of powershell scripts to generate data which ( I hope) could also be done by rules.

E.g. to determine if an account should be created/deprovisioned/UnDeprovisioned I am using powershell scripts to find if the start is today (or before). Who could I accomplish the same by using rules?

Stu.Pollock · Answer

Hi pdevos 
 
 You can control this using the criteria steps within the a particular workflow step, IE: 
 For my "HR Provisioning" workflow, I have a step called "Creation from HR to ARS", within the settings of that step, I have configured a "Creation Criteria", where I say 
 1) The StartDate value must be present in the HR source data (not necessarily required) 
 2) A Value generated by a PowerShell script, which must be true for the record from my HR data to be included. 
 
 This looks like the following: 
 
 The below script lookup the users "StartDate" column from my import source (CSV in this case) 
 It converts that value into a datetime value, 
 It then gets todays date 
 I then use workout (using a TimeSpan) how long until the users start date is until now 
 If the number of days is greater or equal to 0, I return true 
 if the number of days is negative, I return false 
 
 If I test that, I see of my 10 records in my HR feed, I need to create 7 out of the 10 
 
 Are the start dates for those users are today on in the past, the other three users have a start date in the future, therefore are not shown. 
 
 For the deprovision step, you'd amend the script to do similar to the script above, or just use a workflow to deprovision the user when their deprovision date (stored in your own VA) is reached. 
 For undo deprovision, you'd want to ensure that you amend you update step, so that the edsvaUnDeprovision attribute is set to 1 in your rules, set the value using a PowerShell, so that your can query the start and end dates, to ensure you actually should be undoing the deprovision action on a particular user. 
 
 Hope this helps. 
 
 Stu

Sync Service only create if startdate is today

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