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Supplemental user data for Profiles
When you map LDAP data to the Profiles database, you can use that data to create additional tables.
Map user data
You can map additional user data to supplemental tables within the Profiles database and then display that data in a user's profile. When the LDAP provides a code or abbreviation for a particular setting, the supplemental table can provide extra data. For example, an employeeType of P in the LDAP might correspond to Permanent. If the employee-type table is populated with data such as p;permanent, this extra data can be displayed in the profile. The profiles_tdi.properties file stores the settings that determine how the tables are populated. The mapping task for Profiles maps your user data to the following entities:
- Fill countries
- Add country data to each profile.
- Fill departments
- Add country data to each profile.
- Fill organization
- Add organization data to each profile.
- Fill employee types
- Add employee-type data to each profile.
- Fill work locations
- Add location data to each profile.
CSV files
A CSV (comma separated value) file is required as input for each of these tasks. The following sample shows common properties of a CSV file:
country_table_csv_separator=; country_table_csv_file=isocc.csv department_table_csv_separator=; department_table_csv_file=deptinfo.csv emp_type_table_csv_separator=; emp_type_table_csv_file=emptype.csv organization_table_csv_separator=; organization_table_csv_file=orginfo.csv workloc_table_csv_separator=; workloc_table_csv_file=workloc.csvThe data that can be populated in these tables is usually provided as two values per line: code;description. For the
workloccode, the values can be code;addr1;addr2;city;state;zip. For example: WSF;FIVE TECHNOLOGY PARK DR;;WESTFORD;MA;01886-3141.
Fields that you do not require in your mapping can be omitted from the file; the example above uses only one addr field.
Sample CSV file
This sample shows some lines from the isocc.csv file, which can be used to fill countries data:ad;Andorra, Principality of ae;United Arab Emirates af;Afghanistan, Islamic State of ag;Antigua and Barbuda ai;Anguilla al;Albania am;Armenia an;Netherlands Antilles ao;Angola aq;Antarctica ar;Argentina
You can find more sample CSV files in the <wizard_files_directory>/TDIPopulation/TDISOL/<aix|lin|win>/samples directory, where the <wizard_files_directory> is the location of the various Wizard files that you downloaded or received on disk, and <aix|lin|win> is the AIX®, Linux®, or Microsoft Windows version of the For information on configuring the display of the report-to field for your organization, see Enabling the display of organizational structure information.
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