Edit Account Attributes Page
Use the Edit Account Attribute page to create and edit account attributes including the display name, attribute type and source mapping. You can also use this page to create specialized account attributes. See Create Icons to Represent Specialized Account Attributes.
The maximum number of searchable attributes that can be created is defined during the installation and configuration process. By default you can set five searchable account attributes. See System Setup.
The Edit Account Attribute page contains the following information
Account Attribute
Attribute Name
The name of the attribute as it appears in the application.
Changing an attribute name might cause attributes that were previously aggregated to no longer be recognized.
Display Name
The IdentityIQ user assigned name for use throughout IdentityIQ.
Advanced Options
Edit Mode
Enable editing of this attribute.
Read Only – this attribute cannot be edited.
Permanent – changes made to this attribute manually are not overwritten by refresh tasks.
Temporary – changes made to this attribute manually are overwritten by the first refresh task that detects a value different than the original value.
For example, if the original value is A and it is manually changed to B, the value is not overwritten by a refresh task until the newly aggregated value is not A. When an aggregation detects a value that is not A, it refreshes the manually-changed value and the value is updated with each subsequent refresh.
Attribute Type
The attribute type to be linked, for example string, Boolean, or date.
Searchable
Account attributes are existing link values and are always searchable. This field is displayed as selected and read only so that identity and account attribute configuration pages are consistent in appearance.
Multi-Valued
Specify attributes for which multiple values might be returned during aggregation.
Attributes flagged as multi-valued are stored as a list. Even objects that have a single value for a multi-value attribute are stored as a single-item list. Multi-valued attributes are used for queries throughout the product.
Source Mappings
The list of attribute / application pairs or rules from which account attributes are derived. If the required data is unavailable on this primary source, the collection process continues down the list of configured sources until the information is found. This feature is unlikely to be used for Account Attribute mapping.