Data combining from two files and weired issue in FIM 2010

Question

Experts,
Following is the scenrio:-
User File
empid:firstname:lastname:deptnumber
DeptFile
deptnumber:departmentname:companyname:
Finally
Object type 'person' in metaverse and fim service should have all attribute:
Object Type - Person
Attributes - empid,firstname,lastname,deptnumber,depatmentname,companyname
To implement this:-
I created Inbound rule for User File. Relation ship criteria as accountname=empid and selected 'create resource in FIM'
Again created Inbound rule for DeptFile. Relationship criteria as deptnumber=deptnumber and not selected 'create resource in FIM'.
Well the Inbound rule for User File is working fine but Inbound rule for DeptFile is not updating depatmentname and companyname in 'Person' object.
Also intemittently I see following error:-
The synchronization rules have changed.
In order to apply this change to all imported objects, you must run full synchronization or full import and full synchronization.
Do you want to continue with the selected run profile?
Any Ideas where I am going wrong?
Thanks,
Mann

Answer 1

If you don't want to write code in FIM, perhaps you could combine the files using powershell before importing it to FIM, that way you only need one MA.
#Import user csv file
$userlist = import-csv "C:\temp\users.txt" -Delimiter ":"
#Import department csv file
$departmentlist = import-csv "C:\temp\departments.txt" -Delimiter ":"
#Create a hashtable of departments
$departmenttable = @{}
foreach ($department in $departmentlist){
$departmenttable.add($department.deptnumber,$department.departmentname)
#Create hashtable of companies
$companytable = @{}
foreach ($company in $departmentlist){
$companytable.add($company.deptnumber,$company.companyname)
#Map userobjects to departmentnames and write to file
$tofile = New-Object System.IO.StreamWriter("C:\temp\result.txt")
$tofile.writeline("empid:firstname:lastname:deptnumber:departmentname:companyname")
foreach ($user in $userlist){
$tofile.writeline($user.empid + ":" + $user.firstname + ":" + $user.lastname + ":" + $user.deptnumber + ":" + $departmenttable.item($user.deptnumber) + ":" + $companytable.item($user.deptnumber))
$tofile.Close()
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