IBM Connections 6.0 CR5 : Transferring ownership of user files

One of the new features of the IBM Connections 6.0 CR5 is the  availability of a new admin command to move the file ownership between users.

As usual this feature has no GUI and you have to use it from  wsadmin prompt   .



the first step is start files admin

execfile("filesAdmin.py")

than get the future ownerd ID with the following command

FilesMemberService.getByEmail("[email protected]")

the id needed will be written after the "id="

{

directoryLastUpdate=Wed Dec 19 18:20:38 CET 2018, 

directoryGroupLastUpdate=Tue Jun 04 10:09:41 CEST 2019, 

name=Matteo Bisi, isOprhan=false, 

lastVisit=Tue Jun 04 10:09:41 CEST 2019, 

id=62a06326-04ef-4541-ae9f-ad816e6c4045, 

[email protected], 

createDate=Fri Jul 20 11:19:02 CEST 2012, 

communityLastUpdate=Tue Jun 04 10:09:41 CEST 2019

} 

now create a file inside Connections DMGR with the ID of the files you wish to transfer between the users like the following

[root@connections~]# cat file-da-trasferire
8f17e1b3-797d-4253-b90e-6101edf11423

158c9cc8-1bb1-4582-bc2f-9e288655c2f0
3fe52bde-ffa7-418c-9f71-d1cee4f3c4aa

now enter the following command using as argument the path of the file with the file ids, the id of the user that will receive the files and a tag to identify the files transferred

FilesLibraryService.transferPersonalFiles("/root/file-da-trasferire", "62a06326-04ef-4541-ae9f-ad816e6c4045", "file-ex-dipendente")

The personal file with the id 8f17e1b3-797d-4253-b90e-6101edf11423 was transferred successfully.
The personal file with the id 158c9cc8-1bb1-4582-bc2f-9e288655c2f0 was transferred successfully.
The personal file with the id 3fe52bde-ffa7-418c-9f71-d1cee4f3c4aa was transferred successfully.

inside Connections the new owner of the files will receive a notification about the modification of the file trasferred from System_admin user

now the files are transferred and checking the about tab of a file the new user is listed as creator and the file is updated by System User.

The file is also tagged with the tag "file-da-ex-dipendente" that I've used to trasfer the files