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This topic needs further documentation to make it awesome. If you have experience with this transformation step, we encourage you to update this topic. More information can be found in JIRA case DOC-2115.


Limitation documented in PDI-17823: If you have a transformation with multiple LDAT Input or LDAP Output steps (talking to two different LDAP servers with different configurations) or simultaneous transformations with differently configured LDAP steps, one transformation's configuration will step all over the other transformation's configuration.

Description

The LDAP Input step allows you to read information like users, roles and other data from an LDAP server. The following sections describe the available options for the LDAP input step.

General Tab

Option

Description

Step name

 


Host

Host on which the LDAP server is running

Port

Port number on which the LDAP server is running

Use Authentication

 


Username


Password

 


Test connection button

 


Preview rows button

 


Search Tab

Option

Description

Search base

Base LDAP node to search the LDAP contents

Filter String

LDAP filter to search the customized contents, in the current stage only "single filter format" is supported like. 
 Example: mail=*

Content

Option

Description

Include rownum in output?

 


Rownum fieldname

 


Limit

 


Fields

Option

Description

Name

 


Column

 


Type

 


Format

 


Length

 


Precision

 


Currency

 


Decimal

 


Group

 


Trim type

 


Repeat

If LDAP returns no value for an attribute, use the value from the previous row