When importing entities that have a duplicate in another data source or in Security Center, you can configure the Card Synchronization plugin to merge the duplicate entities into a single entity. To merge duplicates, you need to identify a unique field as a global key.
What you should know
- You can choose from the global key fields already listed in the configuration
window, such as unique ID, email, full name, or you can add a new global key
field by creating custom fields in Security Center.NOTE: All custom fields are listed as global key fields in the configuration window.
- The values from the external source always take precedence over existing values in Security Center unless the value is NULL.
Procedure
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In the Data sources section, select a data source and
click Edit data source (
).
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On the What to sync page, do the following:
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Select Resolve data source relationships using global
keys, and then click Next.
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Select Resolve data source relationships using global
keys, and then click Next.
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In the Is global key column, select the fields that
contain unique data for each entity.
Fields identified as a global key are used to merge imported entities with existing Security Center entities. For example: if every cardholder in your database has a unique employee ID, then map the employee ID to the Unique ID and make it a global key.
