How does the Updated by Field Work....

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Can anyone help on how the *Updated By* field values are populated, specially when the values are updated through a Workflow.

I read the following in the MDM Documentation.

If trigger action is Record Add, Record Update, or Record Import for a workflow. The [System] is the creator and launcher of the job but is not a real user.

This is even true if the Owner of the workflow is the Admin.

After our server migration was done, instead of showing [System] as the Updated By it now shows the Admin.

What could be the reason for this. Do i need to contact SAP or is there something that needs to be done at the respository level to get the Updated By field to work as expected.

Regards,

Aditya.

[Former Member]

Hi Aditya,

As far as i am concerned, this is not true. Field Updated by type of User Stamp should only show user's which are there in User's table of MDM console under node Admin-->Users. When we don't have any User of repository with name System, there is no point it will show you user System for field Updated by.

Query 1: Can you please confirm, do you have this User "system" available in your repository under node admin-->Users in MDM console ?

Query 2: Also, After our server migration was done, instead of showing System as the Updated By it now shows the Admin.

I seriously have doubt on this. Can you please check do you have really user System for existing records too? I mean you can do Free-form search for field Updated by with value system. I am sure even for existing records (whether in before server migration or in existing) you will not get single record with field updated by "system" . Can you please confirm on this ?

May be I am wrong, so kindly revert with your findings and confirm above both queries..?

Regards,

Mandeep Saini