[midPoint] User manager

[Radovan Semancik]

On 03/24/2016 12:24 PM, Aivo Kuhlberg wrote:
>
> Does midPoint supports specifying manager for user? I understand that 
> currently it is possible to specify manager only for organization unit 
> but we have some org. units where there is more than 1 manager.
>

MidPoint org units may have any number of managers.

As midPoint has an excellent support for organizational structure we 
haven't seen any need for having a 'manager' attribute in each user. 
That attribute is mostly a hack used by IDM systems that cannot support 
proper organizational structures. Su approach is very problematic, e.g. 
there needs to be explicit process to replace the manager that 
potentially affect many user records, it is not uncommon to have org 
unit that (temporarily) has no manager at all, there may be several 
managers applicable for different situations (e.g. a functional manager 
and project manager(s)) etc. Those scenarios simply won't work well. So 
I strongly recommend to avoid that approach.

But if you insist on using that then you can define 'manager' property 
as a custom extension of user schema.

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com

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