Importing Salesforce Platform license users with assigned permission sets from an LDAP server

The following topics provide information about importing users with the Salesforce Platform license from an LDAP server into your Salesforce organization:

You can import users into your Salesforce organization by using the Pentaho Data Integration tool. The Pentaho package for importing users with the Salesforce Platform license from an LDAP server is available on the BMC Communities website. For information about how users are imported into your Salesforce organization, see Overview of how users are imported from LDAP servers.

KJB and KTR files for importing users from an LDAP server

In Pentaho, metadata is stored in XML format in the file system as KTR (transformations) or KJB files (jobs). The Pentaho package includes the TransferLDAPInfo.kjb file (job file) for importing users from an LDAP server. The job (KJB) file contains a series of transformations that run in a sequence. Each transformation maps to a KTR file that is available, along with the KJB file, in the Pentaho package. The following table provides information about the KTR files and the corresponding transformations that the KJB file contains:

The following table provides information about the steps that are included in the TransferLDAPInfo.ktr file (Update Salesforce with LDAP user information transformation). The Pentaho package runs these steps to import users from the LDAP server into your Salesforce organization. You can view these steps only when you open the KTR file in the Pentaho Data Integration tool. The KTR file also contains mapping of the fields in the LDAP server to the fields in the Client User Import table. For more information about mapping, see Overview of how users are imported from LDAP servers.

Before you begin

Before you can import users from an LDAP server, you must perform the following tasks:

• Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
• Download the Pentaho Data Integration tool.

• Register at the BMC Communities website.
• Download the Pentaho package from the BMC Communities website (https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-32288).
  BMC recommends that you download the job files in the folder in which you have unzipped the Pentaho Data Integration tool.

To import Salesforce Platform license users with assigned permission sets from an LDAP server

By using the LDAP Pentaho package, you can import users who are assigned the Salesforce Platform license and ServiceDesk Client permission set by default. The BMC Remedyforce package license is also assigned to the new imported users.

1. To launch the Pentaho Data Integration tool, in the \pdi-ce-4.x.0-stable\data-integration or pdi-ce-5.0.1.A-stable\data-integration folder, double-click the Spoon.bat file.
2. In Pentaho Spoon, select File > Open, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the Pentaho packages, and open the TransferLDAPInfo.kjb file.
3. To open the LookUpExcelExport.ktr (transformation) file, right-click the Transfer LookUpExcelExport step, and select Open referenced object > Transformation.
4. To provide details to access your Salesforce organization, perform the following actions:
   
   1. On the Transfer LookUp Excel Export tab, double-click the Salesforce Input [For Profile] step.
   2. In the Salesforce Input window, enter your Salesforce organization user name and password.
   3. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.
   4. Click OK.
   5. Repeat step a to step d for the following steps:
      

      • Salesforce Input[For Profile]

      • Salesforce Input[From Account]

      • Salesforce Input [From UserRole]

      • Salesforce Input[For User Account Link]

      • Salesforce Input[From Permission Set]

      • Salesforce Input [From User]

   6. To save the LookUpExcelExport.ktr file, click .
   7. In the TransferLDAPInfo.kjb file, right-click the Assign Account to users step, and select Open referenced object > Transformation.
   8. On the TransferAccountsToUsers tab, double-click the Salesforce Insert [For User Account Link] step.
   9. Enter the username and password details in the respective fields.
   10. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.
   11. To save the file, click .
   12. Repeat step f to step j for the Salesforce Update step.
   13. In the KJB file, right-click the Assign Permission sets to the new users step, and select Open referenced object >  Transformation.
   14. On the AssignPermissionSets tab, double-click the Salesforce Insert step.
   15. Enter the username and password details in the respective fields.
   16. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.
   17. To save the KTR file, click .
   18. In the KJB file, right-click the Assign Remedyforce License to the new user step, and select Open referenced object > Transformation.
   19. On the AssignRemedyforceLicense tab, double-click the Salesforce Update step.
   20. Enter the username and password details in the respective fields.
   21. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.
   22. To save the KTR file, click 
5. To provide details to access the LDAP server, perform the following actions:
   
   1. In the KJB file, right-click the Update Salesforce with LDAP user information step, and select Open referenced object > Transformation.
   2. On the TransferLDAPInfo tab, double-click the LDAP input step.
   3. In the LDAP Input window, enter the host, username, and password details in the respective fields.
   4. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.
   5. (Optional) To fetch more fields from the LDAP server, in the Fields tab, click Get Fields.
   6. (Optional) Double-click the Dynamic account, profile and permission set assignment step, and perform any of the following actions:
      
      • Modify or assign default value for account, profile, permission set, BMC Remedyforce package license, role, and custom values for specific condition in the script.
      • Modify the default value for Locale, Language, TimeZone, and EmailEncoding fields. 
      • Update the default permission set assigned to the imported users by updating the value in the permissionSet variable.
      • Disable the BMC Remedyforce package license assignment to imported users by updating the value of the AssignRemedyforceLic variable to false.
   7. In the Script Values / Mod window, refer to the commented examples that are provided.

   8. Double-click the Salesforce Upsert [For User] step, and enter your Salesforce organization username and password.

      Note

      If you are using previous versions of the Pentaho data integration tool (for example, Pentaho 4.1 or 4.2), you must modify the Salesforce Webservice URL to https://www.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/20.0.

   9. (Optional) To update the predefined mapping between the LDAP fields and the Salesforce client user import object, click Edit Mapping.
      For more information about mapping, see Overview of how users are imported from LDAP servers.
   10. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.
   11. Click OK.
6. To provide your Salesforce organization access the manager field information of the LDAP User from Active Directory:

   1. In the TransferLDAPInfo job file, right-click the Update manager information step, and select Open referenced object > Transformation.

   2. Double-click the Salesforce Update step and perform the following:

      1. Ensure that the correct Salesforce Webservice URL has been entered

      2. Enter your Salesforce organization username and password.

      3. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.

      4. Click OK.

   3. Double-click the LDAP Input step and perform the following:
      1. In the Host section, ensure that the correct LDAP host connectivity configuration has been entered.
      2. In the authentication section, enter your Salesforce organization user name and password.

      3. (Optional) To verify the connection, click Test connection.

      4. Click OK.
   4. Click .
7. (Optional) If you have enabled the setting to access your Salesforce organization from limited IP addresses, to enable communication between Salesforce and the Pentaho Data Integration tool, perform the following actions:
   

   1. In Salesforce, navigate to Setup > Reset My Security Token.

      Note

      If you have enabled the improved Setup user interface in your Salesforce organization, navigate to My Settings > Personal > Reset My Security Token. For more information, see http://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=admin_setup_improved.htm&language=en_US.

   2. Click Reset Security Token.
      An email message is sent to your email address stored in Salesforce.
   3. In the Password field of the Salesforce Upsert [For User] step, append the security token to the password.
      For example, if your password is mypassword and your security token is XXXXXXXXX, then you must enter mypasswordXXXXXXXXX in the Password field.
      
      You must also append the security token to the password in all steps in which you have entered the user name and password of your Salesforce organization.
8. To save the KTR and KJB files, click .
9. In the KJB file, click .
   Complete transformations are depicted using . indicates currently running transformations, andindicates unsuccessful transformations.
10. (Optional) To view logs, in the Execution results section, click the Logging tab.
    All errors are displayed in red.

To assign permission sets to existing users by using a KTR file

To assign permission sets to existing users by using the KTR file provided in the InsertPermissions folder, you need the AssigneeId of users and the IDs of the permission sets that you want to assign to the users.

1. From the InsertPermissions folder, double-click the PermissionSetAssignment.csv file, and enter the user IDs (AssigneeIds) and the permission set IDs.
2. To launch the Pentaho Data Integration tool, in the \pdi-ce-4.x.0-stable\data-integration or pdi-ce-5.0.1.A-stable\data-integration folder, double-click the Spoon.bat file.
3. In Pentaho Spoon, select File > Open and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the Pentaho packages.
4. From the InsertPermissions folder, open the InsertPermissionSets.ktr file to assign permission sets to existing users.
5. In the InsertPermissionSets.ktr file, double-click the Salesforce Insert step, and enter your Salesforce organization user name and password.
6. To save the file, click .
7. To run the KTR file, click .

Related topics

Overview of how users are imported from LDAP servers

Scheduling jobs to import data

Troubleshooting issues with importing data