Clone Portal users, groups and content 'User' object has no attribute 'users'

[cloneportal]

hi all, I'm trying to clone ArcGIS online users to another online, but it gives me an error at the last step when calling the Clone function :
note that these accounts are trial only 21 days.

here is the full code from ESRI and I run it on Jupyter notebook:

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from arcgis.gis import GIS
from IPython.display import display
import arcgis
import os
print (arcgis.__version__)

source = GIS("https://cloneportaltest.maps.arcgis.com/home", "clone_portal", Password )

target = GIS("https://cloneportal2.maps.arcgis.com/home", "clone_portal_2", Password )

target_admin_username = 'clone_portal_2'

#!esri_ & !admin

source_users = source.users.search('!esri_ & !admin')

for user in source_users:

    print(user.username + "\t:\t" + str(user.role))

len(source_users)

target_users = target.users.search('!esri_ & !admin & !system_publisher')

for target in target_users:

       print(target.username + "\t:\t" + str(target.role))

print('LenUsers:',len(target_users))

# filter out system and initial administrator accounts

target_users = target.users.search('!esri_ & !admin & !system_publisher')

target_users

for source_user in source_users:

    try:

        target_user = target.users.get(source_user.username)

        if target_user is not None:

            print('Deleting user: ' + target_user.fullName)

            target_user.reassign_to(target_admin_username)

            target_user.delete()

    except:

        print('User {} does not exist in Target Portal'.format(source_user.username))

def copy_user(target_portal, source_user, 'TestPassword@123')

    # See if the user has firstName and lastName properties

    try:

        first_name = source_user.firstName

        last_name = source_user.lastName

    except:

        # if not, split the fullName

        full_name = source_user.fullName

        first_name = full_name.split()[0]

        try:

            last_name = full_name.split()[1]

        except:

            last_name = 'NoLastName'

    try:

        # create user

        target_user = target_portal.users.create(source_user.username, password, first_name, 

                                                 last_name, source_user.email, 

                                                 source_user.description, source_user.role)

        # update user properties

        target_user.update(source_user.access, source_user.preferredView,

                           source_user.description, source_user.tags, 

                           source_user.get_thumbnail_link(),

                           culture=source_user.culture, region=source_user.region)

        return target_user

    except Exception as Ex:

        print(str(Ex))

        print("Unable to create user "+ source_user.username)

        return None

for user in source_users:

    print("Creating user: " + user.username)

    copy_user(target, user, 'TestPassword@123')

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Error

Creating user: clone_portal

Unable to create clone_portal
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'update'
Unable to create user clone_portal

[jcarlson]

Can you elaborate on the code that precedes this? What are the variables "target" and "source_users"?

Is "copy_user" a custom function? What does its definition look like?

[cloneportal]

the post now is edited, kindly review.

[jcarlson]

Great! I'll look it over. But you also might want to check out the code formatting options in the extended post toolbar. Pasting code as regular text is hard to follow, and then there's this little thing:

[jcarlson]

Hard to say for sure, but I would guess it's happening when you create the new user. In the docs for that function, you can see:

Returns The user if successfully created, None if unsuccessful.

Your error indicates that target_user = None.

I would add a couple lines to check the value of target_user before proceeding to the update, but also look a little closer at the create function to see what's causing it to fail.