Creation of Portal users and group assignments

Hi, everyone. My company just completed a load of some 2000 E-Business suite users into our new portal and have given them group assignments according to payroll. I had gathered a number of routines into a PL/SQL package in order to do this. These came from several sources in these forums, on Metalink, and other places on the internet. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in having it. A lot of it was rewritten on the fly, and I should probably clean it up a bit, but it would have saved me some time if someone had offered it to me. Is there a good place to post things like this? I'm sure that better ways exist to do some of these things than what I used, and I would be interested in some of the experts' comments.
Anyway, let me know if you are interested.
--Dave                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

hi Dave,
i am trying to study a problem with group assignments in a proper branch in OID. it would probably be helpful to clear some pieces in this problem from your notes.
would you be kind to send a copy to [email protected]
with kind regards,
AMN

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    We are a small engineering firm with only 5 users, so it's not like this would take all day.
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    (cf. Lion Server: AFP users unable to authenticate with Kerberos after upgrading)in Apple Support ?
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