Community Component 25.4
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# UserCopy

Allows you to copy a user. This option allows you to set up a new user that shares all or most of the details of an existing user.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9030/action=UserCopy&UserName=Administrator&DestinationUserName=Susan Smith

This action copies the details of the `Administrator` user from the Community component to the new user `Susan Smith`.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
DestinationUserName | The name of the new user.

You must set one of the following parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
UID | The user ID of the user to authenticate.
UserName | The user name of the user to authenticate.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description | Required
--- | --- | ---
DeferLogin | Use another system for user authentication. |
EmailAddress | The e-mail address of the new user. |
FieldFieldName | A field for the new user. |
InputEncoding | The encoding of the UserName. |
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert the response to. |
Overwrite | Overwrite an existing destination user. |
Security | A security field for the new user. |

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Community Component 25.4

Topic Title: UserCopy