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Give or take ownership of objects from a deleted data connection

Use the Data Model > Data Connections node to configure data connections that can synchronize specific data from an external source with your environment.

When you delete a data connection without deleting its related objects, these objects become orphaned: they are no longer updated by synchronizing a data connection.
You can transfer ownership of the objects to another data connection in two ways:

This method has the advantage that ownership of all objects linked to the data connection is transferred, and nothing more.
If an object is not part of the new data connection, depending on configuration, it will be removed at the next synchronization.

  1. Go to Data Model > Data Connections.
  2. Right-click on the connection you want to delete and select Delete this connection.
  3. From the options that appear:
    • Enable Give ownership of all objects related to the selected data connection(s) to
    • Select the connection you want to give ownership of the objects.
    • Only data connections of the same type are listed.
      Example: When you are deleting a People data connection, only data connections for People are listed.
    • The new data connection must exist before you start deleting the old connection.
      If necessary, click Cancel, create the new data connection and start the delete process again.

This method is less accurate than 'give ownership', but has the potential to take ownership of objects that were orphaned before the 'ownership' feature was released or where 'give ownership' was not applied by accident.

When you synchronize a data connection, you can take ownership of orphaned objects that meet the following conditions:

  • the object is of the same type as the data connection
  • the data connection (or rather: the data source it uses) must contain the object.

To use this method:

  1. Go to Data Model > Data Connections.
  2. Right-click on the connection you want to synchronize and select Synchronize this connection.
  3. In the dialog that appears, click Yes.

Taking ownership occurs after the data connection has finished synchronizing.

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