Give or take ownership of objects from a deleted data connection

In the Management Portal at (Data Model >) Data Connections, use data connections to 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When you delete a data connection without deleting its related objects, these objects become orphaned: they are no longer updated by synchronizing a data connection.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. At Data Connections, select the connection you want to delete.
  2. Click Delete.
  3. From the options that appear, select Give ownership of objects.
  4. In the Select Data Connection window, 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. At Data Connections, select the connection you want to synchronize.
  2. Click Synchronize.
  3. From the options that appear, select Synchronize and take ownership.

Taking ownership occurs after the data connection has finished synchronizing.

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