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Answered Bindings vs. Attribute

  • Thursday, December 03, 2009 6:49 PM
     
     
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    I was going through the FIM Portal trying to figure out how to change the list of valid Employee Types when adding a user.  I did Administration, all resources, attribute type description, selected Employee Type and on the validation tab added another employee type.  Did iisreset, hit PF5 refresh, enter user management, new user, and on the work info tab hit the Employee Type drop down and the new employee type did not show up.

    Did Administration, all resources,  binding descriptions, selected Employee Type and on the validation tab added another employee type, iisreset, PF5 Refresh and the new employee type showed up in the drop down.

    It appears like all I had to do was update the Binding description in order for the new Employee Type to appear.

    Dumb question, what is the relationship of the attribtute description and binding description and did I need to update them both.  Not sure of the functionality differences between the two.

    thanks.

     

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  • Thursday, December 03, 2009 6:56 PM
     
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    Hi!
    The binding as just as it says a binding between a resource type and an attribute because attributes can be used for multiple resource types.
    Regarding Employee Type that is an attribute that by default is only bound to the Person object you have to edit the validation regex for both the attribute and the binding.

    //Henrik
    Henrik Nilsson Blog: http://www.idmcrisis.com Company: Cortego (http://www.cortego.se)
     
  • Friday, December 04, 2009 12:35 AM
     
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    If you're a fan of the manual then there's also a useful Getting Started guide: Introduction to Schema Management.
    CraigMartin – Edgile, Inc. – http://identitytrench.com
     
  • Sunday, December 06, 2009 2:03 PM
     
     
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    I actually deleted the validation from the Binding because I was bored of editing it in two places, and I really couldn't see any reason for it to be in two places. My User creation and editing forms use the Attribute as a source for the drop down list (after I modified the forms).
    http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis