12-02-2008 3:27 PM
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
12-02-2008 4:16 PM
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> 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,
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> 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
12-02-2008 4:16 PM
>
> 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
12-03-2008 6:34 AM
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