20.6 Renaming a Vibe User

Vibe users are identified by name (first, middle, last) and by user ID. User names are used to identify personal workspaces. User IDs are used for logging in. You can change users’ names, but not their user IDs. How you change users’ name depends on how you created the user.

20.6.1 Renaming a Vibe User from LDAP

If you are synchronizing user information from an LDAP directory, as described in Adding Vibe Users from Your LDAP Directory in Single-server (Basic) Installation in the OpenText Vibe 4.0.8 Installation Guide, you change a user’s first, middle, or last name by updating it in the LDAP directory. The updated information then synchronizes to the Vibe site according to the schedule you have established for LDAP synchronization. If you change a user’s first, middle, or last name by updating information on the Vibe site, the change is not synchronized back to the LDAP directory, so the two sources of user information can be out of sync.

20.6.2 Renaming a Local Vibe User

If you manually create Vibe users on the Vibe site, rather than synchronizing user information from an LDAP directory, you can change users’ names (first, middle, last) on the Vibe site.

When a user logs in to the Vibe site for the first time, the user’s personal workspace is created. Before a user logs in, he or she does not have a personal workspace. Vibe enables site administrators to manually rename both types of users.

NOTE:Vibe does not allow you to change a user ID after the user account has been created.

To rename a local Vibe user:

  1. Log in to the Vibe site as the Vibe administrator.

  2. Click your linked name in the upper right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon .

  3. In the Management section, click Users.

    All users in the Vibe site are displayed.

  4. Click the name of the user who you want to rename.

  5. If the user has logged in to the Vibe site at least one time, click Profile.

    or

    If the user has never logged in to the Vibe site, click Modify.

  6. Modify the First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name fields as desired.

  7. Click OK.