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    XML File User Directories
    • 30 Dec 2023
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    XML File User Directories

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    General

    This type of user directory synchronizes Users and User Groups with an XML file.

    NOTE

    This type of user directory is not available in the SaaS version of Mail & Deploy.

    File Structure

    The XML file contains two types of entries. The basic structure of the XML looks like this:

    XML File Structures
    User Group Entries... User Entries...

    User Group Entry
    This type of entry describes a user group and has the following syntax:

    XML File User Group Entry

    <UserGroup
    Id=""
    Name=""/>

    The entry has the following values:

    Name

    		Description
    idThe ID of the user group which is used by to identify a user group throughout multiple synchronizations with the XML file. This is an alphanumeric string that needs to be unique.
    nameThe name of the user group.

    User Entry

    This type of entry describes a user and has the following syntax:

    XML File User Entry

    <User
    Id=""
    Name=""
    MatchCode="<match_code>"
    Type=""
    LanguageCode=""
    EMailAddress=""
    TimeZone="<time_zone>"
    Culture=""
    HasWindowsAccount="<has_windows_account>"
    WindowsAccountName="<windows_account_name>"
    HasCustomCredentials="<has_custom_credentials>"
    CustomUserName="<custom_username>"
    InitialCustomPassword="<initial_custom_password>" />
    <UserGroupMembership UserGroupId="<usergroup_id>" />
    </User>

    The entry has the following values:

    Name

    		Description
    idThe ID of the user which is used by to identify a user throughout multiple synchronizations with the XML file. This is an alphanumeric string that needs to be unique.
    nameThe name of the user.
    match_codeThe match-code of the user. This property is optional and can be an empty string.
    type0. Standard User
    1. API User
    2. Administrator
    languageen. English
    de. German
    emailThe e-mail address of the user. This property is optional and can be an empty string.
    time_zoneThe timezone of the user; this needs to be one of the values of the Timezone column of the  Windows Default Time Zones.
    cultureThe culture of the user; this needs to be one of the values of the CultureInfo Code column of the  Culture Code List.
    has_windows_accountFalse. The user does not have a windows account.
    True. The user does have a windows account.
    windows_account_nameThe name of the windows account of the user in DOMAIN\accountname format. This property can be an empty string if haswindowsaccount is set to False.
    has_custom_credentialsFalse. The user does not have custom credentials.
    True. The user does have custom credentials.
    custom_usernameThe custom username of the user. This property can be an empty string if hascustomcredentials is set to False.
    custom_passwordThe custom password of the user. This property can be an empty string if hascustomcredentials is set to False. The custom password of a user will only be set if the user is first added during a synchronization; when an existing user is updated, the password will not be overwritten.
    NOTE

    For a full description of the individual properties see the Users article.

    Every user entry can have zero or more user group membership entries which define the membership of a user in a user group. The values are:

    Name

    		Description
    usergroup_idThe ID of the user group of which the user is a member. This must be the ID of one of the user groups defined in a user group entry of the XML file.
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