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In my previous post I discussed the steps to assign multiple users to groups in one go using the Life Cycle Management available under shared services. Being an administrator, I would still like to have some automated way to avoid performing all these steps every time I need to assign users. It eventually led to writing this post. Step 4 : Migration definition XML We need to perform the first three steps defined in the previous post, but this will be a one time activity to export group information and obtain the folder structure at 'Base path' (I will come to defining base path later in this post). While performing step 4 for the first time, save the migration definition before launching it. This file gets downloaded as an XML file and the contents of the same are as shown below. The file has a tag  <Options> which defines the operation to be performed during the import. It has the same value which we choose during the 'Import Operation Type'   - Creat...

During every implementation of Oracle EPM system, administrators come across the task to assign a long list of users to corresponding Hyperion groups. It is a pretty easy job if we have a handful of users, but one of the cumbersome tasks if the the list is long.  Celvin described creating users in bulk in his blog post , so I am not going to reiterate the same. This post is more of an extension to it, where we need to assign users from a directory to groups. In this post, we will discuss a method to assign multiple users to corresponding groups in one go. Step 1: Assign a 'TestUser' to any of the existing groups Step 2: Use LCM to export group definition Navigate to shared services and expand 'Application Groups' . Further expand 'Foundation'  and select 'Shared Services' . This opens a list of artifacts on the right. Select 'Groups'  and click on 'Define Migration' . It opens the  'Migration Wizard...