Users, Groups, Roles and Permissions objects cannot be directly exported. You can only export these kinds of objects by exporting the organization to which they belong.

If lifecycle models and policies are selected to be exported with the organization, users are automatically selected for export also. If lifecycle models and policies are not included in the export, you have the option to select the users for export.

If an organization with login-users is imported where the user is already present in the target registry, the import of the user object is ignored and the object is not replaced. This is also true when only the user name but not its Key attribute are identical; in this case the conflicting user will be ignored at import and a warning message is displayed. The user is removed from its group and any Keep current owner settings referring to this user are ignored.

If the organization is exported with users and a user is a member of one of the organization's groups without being related to the organization itself, then this user will not be exported with the organization. This is true even if the user is the Organization Administrator.

If the organization was exported without users or if the Organization Administrator belongs to a foreign organization, the Organization Administrator will be set to the importing user on import; otherwise the Organization Administrator will not change. An organization's Primary Contact will always be the importing user.

If the replace option was set and the imported organization is already present in the target registry, its associated groups and users will be updated. Furthermore, if the export included users, the groups are entirely replaced with the corresponding information of the export set, i.e., users may be added to or deleted from the organization and the groups. However, if the export did not include users, the organization and its groups will retain their users.

If an archive with one or more organizations is imported, then the Keep current organization option is implicitly switched on, thereby ensuring that all objects will be imported to their original organization.