"Create a 'User' resource for the imported 'User' based on its 'manager' attribute in Active Directory" appears twice

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

In Microsoft Active Directory Import, the resource association page is showing two resource association rules with the same "name":

Under SMP Console>Actions>Discover>Import Microsoft Active Directory when clicking on "these resource associations" for the User AD Import Rule, two (2) resources associations called "Create a 'User' resource for the imported 'User' based on its 'manager' attribute in Active Directory" are seen:

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Cause

Working as designed

Resolution

You will correctly see two of these Resource Associations with the same name ("Create a 'User' resource for the imported 'User' based on its 'manager' attribute in Active Directory") but both are referring to 2 different subcategories.

For example, if you click on "User" on the first one, you will see that it is referring to "Manager > User's manager" association:

While the second one refers to "DirectReports>User's Manager" association:

So, these resource associations provide slightly different information.