3573577 - Can the UserID be specified when creating a user with the SCIM API in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

When creating a new user with the SCIM api, the UserID property cannot be set.  Instead, it is set to the value of the username property minus any punctuation and with anything after a @ symbol removed.

e.g.

If you do a POST call to the URL {{ _.Tenant_Url }}/api/v1/scim/Users/ with a body

{
 "schemas": ["urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:core:2.0:User", "urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User", "urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:sap:user-custom-parameters:1.0"],
 "userName": "test1.test2@sap.com",
 "id": "test123",
 "preferredLanguage": "en",
 "name": {
 "givenName": "testa1",
 "familyName": "testa2"
 },
 "displayName": "testa1 testa2",
 "active": true,
 "emails": [{
 "value": "test1.test2@sap.com",
 "type": "work",
 "primary": true
 }
 ],
 "roles": [],
 "groups": [],
 "urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:sap:user-custom-parameters:1.0": {
 "dataAccessLanguage": "de",
 "dateFormatting": "dd.MM.yyyy",
 "timeFormatting": "H:mm:ss",
 "numberFormatting": "1.234,56",
 "systemNotificationsEmailOptIn": false,
 "marketingEmailOptIn": false
 }
}

The resulting UserID with be "test1test2"

Note: With the SCIM api, the userName property must match the SAML attribute to be used within SAC.  So for this example, the SAC tenant is configured to use Email as the SAML attribute.

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This behavior is by design.  Also, the UserID property cannot be modified after creation.

If you want to specify a custom UserID property, you must use the SCIM2 api.   With the SCIM2 api, you can specify a custom UserID property with the userName attribute, and the SAML attribute is passed in as part of the idpUserName property.

e.g.

Do a POST call to {{ _.Tenant_Url }}/api/v1/scim2/Users/ with the body

{
 "schemas": [
 "urn:sap:params:scim:schemas:extension:sac:2.0:user-custom-parameters",
 "urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:core:2.0:User"
 ],
 "userName": "MyCustomID",
 "name": {
 "familyName": "testa1",
 "givenName": "testa2",
 "formatted": "testa1 testa2"
 },
 "displayName": "testa1 testa1",
 "active": true,
 "emails": [
 {
 "value": "test1.test2@sap.com",
 "type": "work",
 "primary": true
 }
 ],
 "roles": [
 {
 "value": "PROFILE:sap.epm:BI_Admin",
 "display": "BI_Admin",
 "primary": true
 }
 ],
 "urn:sap:params:scim:schemas:extension:sac:2.0:user-custom-parameters": {
 "idpUserId": "test1.test2@sap.com",
 "isConcurrent": false,
 "marketingEmailOptIn": true
 }
}

The resulting UserID with be "MyCustomID"

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