Assignment of users to groups in portal based on some filter criteria

Question

Hi All,
I have some 200 users in portal and the UME is portal database. Now I want to assign 50 users who belong to a specific department to a new group in portal.
Unfortunately during the assignment of users to groups there is no advanced search option where I can search for the users based on some criteria like department,organisation unit,first name etc. We can only search for the user based on user id or name.
How can we do a mass assignment of users to groups based on filter?
Any suggestions / solutions are highly appreciated. Points are rewarded for sure.
thanks
Sreeram

Answer 1

Hi Sreeram,
three possibilities:
1.) Develop a small component which does a search based on the criteria you want to use and which then assigns the found users to the group in question. Not really hard, but every development takes some time to develop, some time to test. So if you really want this actione done just once, development may take too long; if the scenario may happen more often, it may make sense to have such a component ready.
2.) Search for the users based on the criteria you want to use via the portals UI. Copy the result into some wordpad, and assign all results afterwards manually, as you have described. Ugly, but (for a one-time action) faster than 1.).
3.) Start like 2.), but use the copied result within the wordpad to "import" the group definition via a text file, see http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1a/cde2fb82644d98bfb6d558440d6806/frameset.htm and around. Probably the fastest and most efficient way to go!
Hope it helps
Detlev