Merging User Lists

importing new sets of data that may be similar to other documents you’ve worked with. Use with care, and check the results carefully after running it. As with the rest of the Compare/Merge tool, DTD merges happen from ‘right to left’.

⚠️Important: You must make backups of your data before using this.

Merging User Lists

You can merge the list of user logins from another document into your document by using the “Merge users” command, under the “Compare/Merge DTDs” tab. (See the section on User Management for more information on user lists.) This may be useful in cases like: (1) Setting up a new project where you want to start with the same user logins (2) If you’ve added new user logins in one copy of a file that contains some changes that should be merged with another copy, and you need the new user logins in the other copy too.

⚠️Important: You should make backups of your data before using this.

⚠️ Important: When merging entries from right to left, information like “last-modified-by” and “created-by” requires that the usernames and/or IDs be present in the main (left) document. Some discrepancies may occur if user names or IDs have changed or do not match between the two documents (e.g. when merging user lists, the system cannot create two users with the same internal ID, but the “last-modified-by” information is saved under the user ID). So as always, you should be careful and always try to follow good workflow practices. If you allow poor workflow management to get out of hand, it may become difficult to resolve this nicely (e.g. if you have several ‘branches’ or ‘copies’ of a document, and new users have been added separately in each, then the system can’t perfectly merge these into a single combined user list, because the different new users may have the same internal IDs across different copies).