topic Re: User Id Format in Application Development and Automation Discussions

User Id Format

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:27:46 GMT

Hi,

Our user id format (both network and SAP) is first letter of the first name and the first 7 letters of the last name (there are exceptions when there is a collision). We are considering if we move away this format to reduce collisions. Unfortunately SAP has a limit of 12 characters. I would like to hear your user id format. Is it employee number? Is it random set of characters generated by a system? etc.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Best regards,

Luke

Re: User Id Format

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:16:24 GMT


> Hi,
> 
> Our user id format (both network and SAP) is first letter of the first name and the first 7 letters of the last name (there are exceptions when there is a collision). We are considering if we move away this format to reduce collisions. Unfortunately SAP has a limit of 12 characters. I would like to hear your user id format. Is it employee number? Is it random set of characters generated by a system? etc. 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Luke

Our format is first 5 characters of last name, first character of first name, first character of middle name and number character from 1-100 for collisions.

John M. Johnston = JOHNSJ

Jane M. Johnson = JOHNSJ1

My advice, if you like to keep your format, make it first character of first name, first 7 characters of last name, and leave the remaining characters for numerical value just in case of collisions (1-999).

Hope this helps.

Edited by: John Navarro on Dec 2, 2008 9:52 PM

Re: User Id Format

Former Member — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:34:51 GMT

Hi Luke,

you can also try this as well.

first 5 letters from last name , next 2 letters from first name and last letter from 1-9 if all the numbers from 1-9 completed then use alphabets A-Z.

John M. Johnston = JOHNSJO1

Jane M. Johnson = JOHNSJA1

Janie Johnson = JOHNSJA2

Hope this helps,

Thanks A Lot,

Regards,

Rakesh.T