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User directory connectors Generic LDAP properties

The following property groups are available for user directory connectors of the type Generic LDAP.

Identification

The Identification property group contains the basic UDC properties in the Qlik Sense system.

All fields are mandatory and must not be empty.

Property Description
Name The name of the UDC configuration defined from the QMC.
Type

The UDC type.

User sync settings

The User sync settings property group contains the user sync properties for the user directory connector.

Property Description Default value
Fetch user data on first access, then keep in sync
  • When selected, only the existing users are synchronized. An existing user is a user who has logged in to Qlik Sense and/or been previously synchronized from the configured directory service.
  • When not selected, all the users, defined by the properties for the UDC, are synchronized from the configured directory service. You can create a filter to Active Directory or Generic LDAP if you only want to synchronize a selection of users.

Selected

Connection

The Connection property group contains the LDAP connection properties in the Qlik Sense system.

Property Description Default value

User directory name

Information noteNot entered manually for Active Directory.
Must be unique, otherwise the connector will not be configured. The name of the UDC instance (to be compared to the domain name of an Active Directory). Together with the user's account name, this name makes a user unique.  
Path The URI used to connect to the AD domain. To support SSL, specify the protocol as LDAPS instead. ldap://company.domain.com
User name The optional user ID used to connect to the AD server. If this is empty, the user running the Qlik Sense repository is used to log on to the AD server. -
Password The optional password for the user. -
Information noteWhen a user creates an Active Directory connector that uses LDAPS, the connector will only work when that user (the creator of the UDC) is logged on to the machine and running the Qlik Sense services.
To sync users using LDAPS, you must provide user name and password.

Advanced

The Advanced property group contains the advanced LDAP connector properties in the Qlik Sense system.

Property Description Default value
Additional LDAP filter Used as the LDAP query to retrieve the users in the AD. -
Synchronization timeout (seconds) The timeout for reading data from the data source. 240
Page size of search

Determines the number of posts retrieved when reading data from the data source.

Tip note If the user synchronization is unsuccessful, try setting the value to no value.
2000

Directory entry attributes

The Directory entry attributes property group contains the directory entry attributes for the LDAP connector.

Information noteThe directory entry attributes are case-sensitive.
Property Description Default value

Type

The name of the attributes that identifies the type of directory entry (only users and groups are used by the LDAP UDC). objectClass
User identification

The attribute value of the directory entry that identifies a user.

inetOrgPerson
Group identification The attribute value of the directory entry that identifies a group. group
Account name The unique user name (within the UDC) that the user uses to log in. sAMAccountName
Email The name of the attributes that holds the emails of a directory entry (user). mail
Display name The full name of either a user or a group directory entry. name
Group membership

The name of the attributes that indicates direct groups that a directory entry is a member of. Indirect group membership is resolved during the user synchronization.

This setting or the one below, Members of directory entry, is allowed to be empty, which means that the group membership is resolved using only one of the two settings.

memberOf
Members of directory entry

The name of the attributes that holds a reference to the direct members of this directory entry.

See also the Group membership setting, above.

member

Tags

The Tags property group contains the available QMC tags in the Qlik Sense system.

Property Description
Tags
Tip noteIf no QMC tags are available, this property group is empty.

Connected QMC tags are displayed under the text box.

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