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Answered powershell - getting an attribute value using other attribute value

  • Monday, February 18, 2013 8:35 PM
     
     
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    I have a command which can retrieve the objectid using an attribute1. How can I retrieve attribute2 using attribute1?

    Thanks!

     

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  • Monday, February 18, 2013 9:06 PM
     
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    This is tricky question :)  as we don't know what command you have in mind. I will assume that you are using standard powershell for FIM. I would advise you to use FIM libraries available on the Codeplex like this one for example:

    http://fimpowershellmodule.codeplex.com/

    And get some interest in - Convert-FimExportToPSObject  and this http://fim.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=PSModule and see Get-FIMResource.

    It should be pretty straightforward in this way ;) 

    Tomek Onyszko, memberOf Predica FIM Team (http://www.predica.pl), IdAM knowledge provider @ http://blog.predica.pl

    • Marked As Answer by fim_sc Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:24 PM
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  • Monday, February 18, 2013 9:15 PM
     
     
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    Tomasz,

    Thanks! Let's say

    a)I have the employee id of a person object and I want to get the department(string) of the person.

    b)Other scenario is , department is stored as reference.

    I used the following to get objectid of the person. I read the psmodule and I am not sure what exactly I have to use to get the value of an attribute in my case.

    get-fimobjectid -objectType Person -attributeName EmployeeID -AttributeValue $sponsorship.EMPID

     
  • Monday, February 18, 2013 10:59 PM
     
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    For (A) Something like this:

    Get-FIMResource "/Person[EmployeeId='12345'] | $_.Department

    for (b) - depends what you want to get - assuming that some deparment attribute based on person value of department and department is ref on an object type of Department 

    Get-FIMResource "/Department[ObjectId=/Person[EmployeeId='1234']/DepartmentRef] | $_.DerpartmentDisplayName

    it is late and I'm writing it out of top of my head but it should work ;)

    Tomek Onyszko, memberOf Predica FIM Team (http://www.predica.pl), IdAM knowledge provider @ http://blog.predica.pl

     
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:51 PM
     
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    You can use the following script

    you can tweak the attributes to get any reference variable and its attribute

    $ObjectType= "Person"
$AttributeToSearch = "EmployeeID"
$AttributeValue = "1002"
$RefAttributeToSearch = "Manager"
$RefAttribute = "DisplayName"

$RefAttributeValue = ((Export-FIMConfig -onlybaseresources -customConfig "/$ObjectType[$AttributeToSearch='$AttributeValue']/$RefAttributeToSearch").ResourceManagementObject.ResourceManagementAttributes | Where-Object {$_.AttributeName -eq $RefAttribute}).Value

    This can also be used to traverse multiple references for example if you want the employee's manager's manager use  

    $RefAttributeToSearch = "Manager/Manager"

    Regards Furqan Asghar