Advice on changing group names

[johansec]

Our instance has gone live to our company about 4 months ago. When we set up our groups in AD our NOC named our groups with their standards. These standards included prefix that is confusing end users when viewing reports and selecting groups from reference fields.

I have been tasked with giving each group a "Friendly Name". So I cannot change the name in ad but can change it when it is being imported into our system. I am concern that there will be scripts somewhere that are referencing groups by their name.

I thought of maybe adding a column to the groups table that will contain a friendly version of the groups technical name but not sure if this is best practice.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

[Pradeep Sharma · Accepted solution]

Hello Cory,

To add, you can use "Code Search" functionality to find a particular line of group name and where it is being used in the system. Here is more detailed info.

Using Code Search to make developing on the platform easier

P.S: This will only scan few tables. Please refer section "Tables included in code search scanning:" in the blog.

[Sindhu3]

As Sanjiv,

I would suggest to change the group name directly and find scripts and change the name in scripts manually.

[Curtis_Myers]

Not sure if you have Normalization, but that is what we use to convert location names like 31RGNHQ to North Regional HQ.

That way any changes to the groups such as members that are imported will be normalized into something that easier to understand.