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Users Database File

Each user is represented in this file by one line, which includes comma-separated values for the following fields (in this order):

• PersonID (the key)
• User name
• Organization name
• Organization type
• Additional fields (optional)
• Up to 6 additional fields per user

Example:

234A745,Tony O Smith,Sales US West Coast,Sales,San Francisco,234A111,5

373B234,Mark W Johnson,San Jose Wireless Research,R&D,San Jose,123B546,1

In the above example, the data imported for Role building includes the following data in the optional fields: the employee's geographic location in the first additional field; the direct supervisor's ID in the second field; and the number of years with the company in the third field.

In addition, it is possible to specify the names of the optional fields, using the following instructions:

• NumFields,<nfields> is used to specify the number of optional fields
• FieldName,<i>,<name of field i> is used to specify the name of the optional i-th field

For example, for the above set of users, the following text may be used at the beginning of the users database:

NumFields,3

FieldName,1,Location

FieldName,2,Supervisor

FieldName,3,Seniority