I have some attributes in the MV, representing phone numbers, and I need to flow them to the multi-valued AD attribute "otherTelephone". It is not possible to define a flow like telephone1 -> otherTelephone telephone2 -> otherTelephone ... as destination attributes in a synch rule must be unique. Is there a way to form an array out of several single valued attributes and flow it to a multi-valued attribute, or some other workaround for this scenario? Thanks, Paolo Paolo Tedesco - http://cern.ch/idm

Hi... There´s no otherTelephone attribute in Metaverse, you will need to create it (multi-valued). With attribute created, you can use the code below in a Rule Extension: Data Source Attribute Metaverse Attribute Type Object Type: User Object Type: Person mobile,telephoneAssistant,telephoneNumber è otherTelephone Rules Extension - cd.user:otherMobile,telephoneAssistant,telephoneNumber->mv.person:otherTelephone case "cd.user:mobile,telephoneAssistant,telephoneNumber->mv.person:otherTelephone": mventry["otherTelephone"].Values.Add(csentry["mobile"].Value.ToString()); mventry["otherTelephone"].Values.Add(csentry["telephoneAssistant"].Value.ToString()); mventry["otherTelephone"].Values.Add(csentry["telephoneNumber"].Value.ToString()); break; Cheers, ***** Paulo H. Campos - São Paulo/Brasil ***** http://identitypedia.blogspot.com (in PT-BR)

I haven't seen any of the declaritive functions that can manipulate multi-value attributes, so assuming that they don't exist, you will have to drop back to an old school management agent extension to accomplish this. You will need to create an export attribute flow that passes both "telephone1" and "telephone2" in the metaverse to the "otherTelephone" attribute in AD. Within your extension code you will want to clear out any existing values and assign the values that are present. Your code would look something like: csentry["otherTelephone"].Values.Clear() if (mventry["telephone1"].IsPresent()) { csentry["otherTelephone"].Values.Add(mventry["telephone1"].Value)}if (mventry["telephone2"].IsPresent()) { csentry["otherTelephone"].Values.Add(mventry["telephone2"].Value)} You could also probably combine the two values into a single string and visually separate them with a comma or somthing. In other words flow telephone1 + ";" + telephone2 into otherTelephone. Any software that reads AD might get confused by this, but if it is just people that look at the data in AD you can get away with it. AD doesn't require the data in the otherTelephone attribute to actually be a telephone number, it can be any string. Which approach you take would depend on what exact requirments you have in AD for the value(s) of otherTelephone.

Hi Paulo, thanks for your answer. The metaverse extension part was clear, I just wanted to know if there was a way to map several single-valued attributes to a multi-valued attribute, but, as I thought, there is no way other than writing a Rule Extension. Sigh. Cheers, PaoloPaolo Tedesco - http://cern.ch/idm