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UMRA – Generic Data Table For Each Loop

Now, I have yet to cover in dept the UMRA action For Each, we talked about it a bit in past blog in conjunction with other UMRA functions, however, in this blog we will talk about how and why you would use this For Each Loop on a Generic Data Table. If you’ve been messing around with UMRA some, and know your way around, you most likely have had to loop through a table of data, either containing users, groups, or any other set of active directory objects, that you need to check on, or run some other script on. Personally, the For Each Loop in UMRA actions, is the main action that I use to loop through and process records of data. This is the primary action used when running a student information system sync with Active Directory, or a HR system sync with Active Directory.

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What a For Each does, is exactly what its name says “For Each”… So for each record in your table of data, it will “do something”, such as execute another project. So, you can have a table of data, of all users in a particular OU, and for each user, you want to move their home drive folder to another server, then update the active directory attribute. This is exactly what its used for, it will pass each record of the table over one by one, passing whatever data you’ve collected in the UMRA database. Now, your script you want to send “each set of data” to, will be like most UMRA scripts you’ve created that process users. Now keep in mind your “process script” will look like a script that is only going to be run on one user at a time, and it will with each pass of the UMRA For Each loop. In most cases you will have a UMRA get user action, that will get the attributes you want to check or verify, or you can pass these in your for each its up to you. Now, don’t forget to put some type of error logic on your “process” script, this will make it so if you run into any problems with your script, you can log out your user that threw an error etc.

So there you have it, the UMRA For Each Loop on a Generic table in a nutshell. Now, again this is one of the most useful actions in UMRA, so you will most likely use this procedure over and over again, as your UMRA projects grow. If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.